“What is the power that moves peoples?" asks Tolstoy in the philosophical essay at the end of War and Peace. “How did individuals” — he has in mind Napoleon — “make nations act as they wished?”

The political theorist Robert Dahl once offered a very simple answer to that question. “A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” A great power can make other states or entities do what is in its national interest; and can shrug off their pressures on it to do what would suit them better.

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America’s Longtime Sources of Power Have Have Turned Weak

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14.01.2024

“What is the power that moves peoples?" asks Tolstoy in the philosophical essay at the end of War and Peace. “How did........

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