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Instruments of power - Coggle Diagram
Instruments of power
Delineating the instruments of power
Three acknowledged instruments
Military
The threat to cause physical injury or harm
Economic
The threat of sanctions
Political/Diplomatic
Convincing an opponent to accept an outcome that one favors
Information
The collection of information about rivals
Situation-Specificity
The relevance of a given element of power to a specific application
Principle
Debates
Power as a physical commodity
Looks at the attributes that a state possesses
Allows countries to be ranked according to how much power they have
Quantification of power attributes
Guessing how conflict will play out
Power as a relationship
Emphasizes the perception of comparisons of power
Vietnam war
Application of instruments of power applied incorrectly by the US
Predictions that US would win was because power was only viewed as a property
War was more important to the North Vietnamese than to the US and RVN
Had more physical power but less relational power
Ending of the Syrian Civil War
Began as part of the Arab Spring
Protests against Bashar al-Assad
Issues and Interested parties
Internal parties
Government of al-Assad
Syrian Rebels
Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups
Kurdish led organizations
Outside parties
Russia
Iran
Turkey
US