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POWER and DEVELOPMENT - Coggle Diagram
POWER and DEVELOPMENT
use and effectiveness of types of power
hard power:
military and economic
command of coercive power
ability to make others do what you want - carrot and stick, incentives
realists - power - carrot and stick
military power
capacity of a state to commit to an aggressive act against another state
including full - scale military conflict
examples:
china economic power grown (second richest state in the world) - building up military capacity
2016 spent $150 billion on military
russia used six day invasion of georgia in 2008 - retaliation against suppression of russian nationalist separatists
2003 - iraq war fought to achieve american foreign policy objectives - subdue american enemies in middle east
economic power
involves inducements or incentives to state to act according to wishes of another state
economic sanctions - trade barriers, tariffs and restrictions on financial transactions
trade agreements also used
examples:
sanctions sa by usa, japan and EEC - during apartheid
2014: eu sanctions against russia - military support for russian nationalist separatists in ukraine
usa and eu insert clauses into trade agreement to protect human rights and workers conditions
used to advance political objectives of some countires