Geoff Mulgan, Good and Bad Power, Penguin, 2005.1–4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York, 1986–2012. Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, voll.John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.Hans Köchler, 'The United Nations Organization and Global Power Politics: The Antagonism between Power and Law and the Future of World Order,' in: Chinese Journal of International Law, Vol.-, Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace.Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946. Propaganda, in which a state or its agencies use adverse inaccurate information to weaken another's reputation.

Asymmetric warfare, in which a state uses unconventional warfare methods in order to exploit another's weaknesses.Part I of the book reprints the original 1983 text of The Power of Power Politics. Shock and awe, in which a state uses a real (or played-up) show of force to deter potential attack In this much-expanded edition of his classic study, John Vasquez examines the power of the power politics perspective to dominate inquiry, and evaluates its ability to provide accurate explanations of the fundamental forces underlying world politics.Covert and clandestine military operations, in which states obscure their role in an operation or conduct the operation in secret, respectively.The use of espionage to subvert another state's capabilities from within.Buck-passing, in which a state attempts to coerce another state to confront a threat, in order to preserve its own capabilities and possibly intervene later.Bait and bleed and 'bloodletting' tactics.The imposition of tariffs or economic sanctions (possibly to initiate a trade war).The massing of military units on a border, whether for stationing or for exercises.Conspicuous weapons development (including nuclear development).Deterrence theory, in which a weaker state deters attack by bolstering its defensive capabilities enough to render attacking infeasible.Power politics prioritizes national self-interest over the interests of other nations or the international community, and thus may include threatening one another with military, economic or political aggression to protect one nation's own interest. The concept of power politics provides a way of understanding systems of international relations: in this view, states compete for the world's limited resources, and it is to an individual state's advantage to be manifestly able to harm others. Power politics is a theory in international relations which contends that distributions of power and national interests, or changes to those distributions, are fundamental causes of war and of system stability. Through the use of comparative case studies these chapters analyse the extent to which the realist paradigm has been progressive (or degenerating), empirically accurate, and remains a relevant and explanatorily powerful theoretical approach for our current era.For other uses, see Power politics (disambiguation). The second part provides six new chapters covering neorealism, post-modernism, the neotraditional research program on balancing, Mearsheimer's analysis of multipolarity and institutionalism, the debate on the end of the Cold War, and neoliberalism. It examines classical realism and quantitative international politics, providing an intellectual history of the discipline and an evaluation of statistical research guided by the realist paradigm. In this much-expanded edition of his classic study, John Vasquez examines the power of the power politics perspective to dominate inquiry, and evaluates its ability to provide accurate explanations of the fundamental forces underlying world politics.

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