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Comment: Effective government as a source of national power.

  • UPSC 1997
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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National power is not an inventory of territory, population and weapons but the capacity to turn them into outcomes. Hans J. Morgenthau in Politics Among Nations (1948) listed the quality of government among the elements of national power and treated it as the factor that decides whether the others count at all. Effective government converts…

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