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Discuss various elements and limitations of national power.

  • UPSC 2002
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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National power is a state's capacity to make others act as it wishes. On Robert A. Dahl's relational definition, it exists only over someone, on some issue. Its elements are therefore potentials, not power itself. Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations (1948) listed nine of them, from geography to the quality of government. The limitations…

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  • Tangible elements
  • Intangible elements
  • Limitations of national power
  • The Indian case
  • Conclusion
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