Global Politics · Core topics: Understanding power and global politics
CT.2 — Power in global politics
Global Politics · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes
Defining power
Contested definitions of power: the ability to effect change, and power seen as a relationship among actors rather than a possession.
Classifications of power
The prescribed types of power, hard, soft and smart; structural and relational; economic, political, social and cultural; and power to, power over, power with.
Evaluating the power classifications
The advantages and limitations of the power typologies as tools for analysing real-world cases.