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(Boulding 1963, 434) Brought to you by | New York University Authenticated Download Date | 7/23/17 5:28 PM CSS Books Online http://cssbooks.net Contents Preface ix Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Power Analysis: Important, Difficult, and Recent 1 Purposes of the Study 3 Structure of the Study 4 Limits of the Study 5 Terminology 6 Implications of the Study 8 Chapter 2: Modern Power Analysis 11 Dahl and His Critics 12 Dahlian Power in Perspective: 50 Years On 26 Evaluating Dahl’s Concept of Power 44 Chapter 3: Analyzing Power 49 Fundamentals of Power Analysis 49 Problems in Power Analysis 59 Chapter 4: Power Analysis and International Relations 91 Power and IR: The Evolution 92 Power and IR: Analytical Perspectives 102 Chapter 5: Realism 123 Realism 123 Brought to you by | New York University Authenticated Download Date | 7/23/17 5:29 PM CSS Books Online http://cssbooks.net contents Neorealism 130 Offensive Realism 135 Chapter 6: Constructivism 139 What Is Constructivism? 139 Materialism versus Culture 143 Constructivism and Power 144 Constructivist Contributions to Power Analysis in IR 153 Chapter 7: Neoliberalism 155 Power and Interdependence: Contributions 156 Soft Power 164 Chapter 8: Conclusion 173 IR Theory and Power in Retrospect 174 Contemporary Relevance of a Dahlian Approach 176 Power and Military Statecraft 178 What Good Is Power Analysis? 188 Bibliography 191 Index 215 viii Brought to you by | New York University Authenticated Download Date | 7/23/17 5:29 PM CSS Books Online http://cssbooks.net Preface In the science game it is important to be prepared to define one’s concepts because the querulous answer to questions about defi- nitions which one so often hears from social scientists, namely, “You know what I mean,” is almost always precisely false. (Levy 1969, 99) The origin of this book can be traced back more than forty years, especially to a sabbatical year spent at the London School of Economics and Political Science (1969– 70). Although I had used Robert Dahl’s work on power in my first book and some early articles, I did not seriously engage the social power literature until 1969, when I stumbled across a book entitled Po- litical Power: A Reader in Theory and Research, edited by Roderick Bell, David V. Edwards, and R. Harrison Wagner, in The Econ- omists’ Bookshop. One never knows what will come of brows- ing. I was immediately struck by the subtlety and sophistica- tion of the social power literature as compared to the treatment of power in the international relations literature. Thus began a year of research on the concept of power that led to the publica- tion of five articles in 1971. During subsequent years, I wrote a number of additional articles on various aspects of power, some of which were published together in book form in 1989. To some extent, this book attempts to draw together, integrate, build upon, and revise ideas about power developed since 1970. ix Brought to you by | New York University Authenticated Download Date | 7/23/17 5:29 PM CSS Books Online http://cssbooks.net preface A second important source of the ideas expressed in this book is a graduate “Colloquium on World Politics” (G8842), which I taught for fifteen years at Columbia University— a course nick- named “the power course” by the graduate students. The basic idea of the course was similar to the basic idea of this book, that is, to bring the ideas in the social power literature developed by political scientists, economists, psychologists, philosophers, so- ciologists, geographers, and mathematicians to bear on theories of international relations. Over the years, the graduate students debated, challenged, and refined my thinking about power and international relations. (Columbia graduate students are not a passive lot.) A number of these students have gone on to make contributions of their own to the literature on power. I hesitate to name them for fear of leaving someone out. Younger scholars may be puzzled by this book and find it old- fashioned. There are no case studies, no large-n data sets, no regressions, no algebraic formulas, and no tests of empiri- cal hypotheses. Although these devices have made important contributions to understanding international relations, they do not suffice. In addition, clear concepts are needed. Thus, the focal point of this book is conceptual analysis rather than em- pirical work or theory construction. Before one can construct measures of power or a theory of power, one must have a clear understanding of what is to be measured and what is to be theorized. Younger scholars may also find it odd that there are so many references to works written more than ten years ago. An obvi- ous reason for this is that one purpose of this book is to trace the evolution of the concept of power in international rela- tions theory since World War I. There are, however, additional reasons. Jacob Viner used to point to three reasons to pay at- tention to the history of thought: (1) There may be some good ideas in the older literature. In other words, the older scholars may have gotten some things right. For example, the works of Harold Lasswell, Ernst Haas, Arnold Wolfers, Harold and Margaret Sprout, Inis L. Claude, Kenneth Boulding, Quincy Wright, and others contain insights that retain their relevance x Brought to you by | New York University Authenticated Download Date | 7/23/17 5:29 PM CSS Books Online http://cssbooks.net preface today.1 (2) One wants to avoid reinventing the wheel and, more importantly, avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.2 Recog- nizing original thinking in any discipline is difficult without knowledge of disciplinary history. It is difficult to “stand on the shoulders of giants” if one does not know who the giants are. (3) Finally, setting the record straight with respect to the intellectual history of a discipline has value in and of itself. An additional reason is that “the history of thought on the sub- ject of power,” as Kenneth Boulding points out, “has been very little studied by comparison, for instance, with the history of economic thought” (1989, 9). From a stylistic viewpoint, the scarcity of first- person pro- nouns will strike many as odd. I am aware that the taboo on such pronouns has virtually withered away, but I do not con- done it. Scholarship is not a matter of splattering one’s personal opinions all over the page; there is a difference between scholar- ship and op- ed pieces. I am also aware that some scholars have come to view the use of the third person as an attempt to deceive readers by concealing one’s personal biases behind a façade of feigned objectivity. Although I do not claim to be able to keep my personal biases from influencing my writing, I do not regard this as a justifiable excuse for not trying to do so. Some readers may be tempted to suspect that my ill- concealed admiration for the work of the late Robert Dahl arises from some personal relationship with him. Other than a perfunctory hand- shake at a professional meeting, however, I never had a personal relationship with him. I was never his student, his colleague, or his coauthor.
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