The Concept of “power” in International Relations: Basic approaches, the analysis, and interpretation
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Keywords:
power, class power, structural power – strength, neo-realism in international politicsAbstract
Today power remains one of the most effective means of modern world politics. With the concept power is related one of the central problems of international relations – the problem of war and peace, the problem of conflict and its resolution, the issue of security. On the basis of the “power” the actors are judged on mutual opportunities, make plans of their interaction, make decisions, assess the degree of stability of the international system. Category of “power” plays a significant methodological role in the science of international relations. “Power” is an important instrument of their scientific analysis: the significance of “power factor” there have been discussions between the various scientific and theoretical schools. Power a criterion of diverse models of the system of international relations. In practice this means that the various states are used to take advantage of the different models with «hard» or «soft» power.References
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(Feb.). – P. 165-178 // The International Studies Association, by Wiley, Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3013643
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Nye J. S. Soft Power and American Foreign Policy // Political Science Quarterly. – 2004. – Vol. 119. -No. 2
(Summer). – P. 255-270; Nye J. S. Public Diplomacy and Soft Power // Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science. – 2008. – Vol. 616 (Public Diplomacy in a Changing World). – P. 94-109
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/J. David Singer (ed.). – New York: Free Press, 1968. P.249
15 Hart J. Three Approaches to the Measurement of Power in International Relations // International
Organization. – 1976. – Vol. 30, No. 2 (Spring). – P. 289-305 // University of Wisconsin Press, URL: http:// www.jstor.org/stable/2706260; Holsti K. J. The Concept of Power in the Study of International Relations.
Background, 1964. – Vol. 7, No. 4 (Feb.). – P. 179-194 // The International Studies Association, URL: http://
www.jstor.org/stable/3013644; Dahl R. The Concept of Power // Behavioral Science. – 1957. – N 202, 2 July; Tellis A. J., Bially J., Layne Ch., McPherson M. Measuring National Power in the Postindustrial Age. – Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation, 2000. http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1110
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R. Art and K. Waltz. – Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefi eld, 1996; Campbell K., O’Hallon M. Hard power:
The new politics of national security. New York: Basic Books, 2006; Cooper R. Hard power, soft power and the
goals of diplomacy. I American power in the 21st century / ed. D. Held and M. Koenig-Archibugi, Cambridge,2004. -167-80
17 Barnett M., Duvall R. Power in International Politics // International Organization. – 2005. – No 59 (1).– P. 39-75
18 Bachrach P., Baratz M. Two Faces of Power // American Political Science Review. – 1962. – No 56 (4).– P. 947-52
19 Pollack M. Engines of European Integration: Delegation, Agency and Agenda Setting the EU. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003; Zartman W., Rubin J. Power and Negotiation /Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000
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