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Comment: Power.

  • UPSC 1998
  • 20 marks
  • Key Concepts in International Relations

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Power is the organising concept of international relations and its most contested one. Robert A. Dahl's classic formula, "A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do", makes it a relationship rather than a possession. Every school must say what power is…

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