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GloPol Power
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Power | Power: Achieving desired goals and influencing others—all groups and individuals in global politics have different types and amounts of power |
| Is power fixed? | No, states and organizations can become more powerful or see their power decline |
| Hard Power: | Achieving aims through force (Military force/sanctions) |
| Soft Power: | Achieving aims through persuasion or influence (Outreach, cultural ties) |
| Smart Power: | Achieving aims through force, persuasion and influence (Payment, Diplomacy, Trade/Aid) |
| Challenges of Hard Power | High cost (financial and human), international backlash, limited effectiveness legitimacy issues, unintended consequences (prolongued conflict, creating failed state) |
| Challenges of Soft Power | Slow impact- Takes time to build influence through cultural values/diplomacy Difficult to control-Relies on perception (which is shaped by others) Vulnerable to hypocrisy Limited in crises-Not effective in urgent security Easilly overshadowed |
| Structural Power: | The power to shape and determine the structures within which other states, their political instituions, their economic enterprises and (not least) their scientists and other professional people have to operate. |
| Relational Power: | The power of actor A to get actor B to do something they would not otherwise do. |
| 4 Dimension of Structural Power | 1.) Finance 2.)Production 3.) Security 4.) Knowledge |
| First Face of Relation Power | Country A uses threats and rewards to change Country B’s behavior against Country B’s initial preferences and strategies. Country B knows this and feels the effect of Country A’s power |
| Second Fact of of Relation Power | Country A controls the agenda of actions in a way that limits Country B’s choices of strategy. Country B may or may not know this and be aware of Country A’s power |
| Third Face of Relation Power | Country A helps to create and shape Country B’s basic beliefs, perceptions and preferences. Country B is unlikely to be aware of this or to realize the effect Country A’s powe |
| Cultural Power | he ability of an actor to shape knowledge, belief, art, law, morals, custom and any other capabilities and habits acquired as a member of society |
| Structural Violence | Any human made structure that prevents someone from achieving their full potential, in other words any form of social injustice. |
| Military Power | The use, or threat of use, of a national military or collective military alliance to coerce or deter another actor to protect itself/themselves. |
| Economic Power: | An actors use of bribes, aid or sanctions to induce or coerce another actor into specific behavior or a state’s leverage through its economic capabilities. |
| Galtung's 5 Types of Imperialism | Economic, Political, Military, Communication, Cultural (know what Peripheral and Center nation provides. |
| Dependency Theory: | The perspective that there is a relationship between so-called periphery countries and core countries; benefitting the latter |
| Power Within (Empowerment) | an internal process during which an individual or political actor goes through a transformative process which leads to a new self-confidence to act. |
| “Power with | ” is the power associated with an organization of people or political actors in groups or alliances working toward a |
| Power to | is the power to bring about an outcome or resist change |
| Power over | suggests a new relationship of domination or subordination between groups or individuals; arguably a form of hard power. |
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