“As a student of international relations you are a student of power relations. But what is power? Drawing on lecture material (lectures and readings), identify at least two different concepts of power. Using your own field of research interest as an example, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of these concepts of power by considering how they may (or may not) inform your own research”
Please answer every aspect of this question.
My research interest is US foreign policy and two examples you can use would be 1. Power over control of resources and capabilities, 2. Power as a goal of states.
Only use these papers for referencing
Waltz, Kenneth N. Structural realism after the Cold War,”
International Security 25.1 (2000), 5-41.
Williams, Michael C. Why Ideas Matter in International Relations:
Hans Morgenthau, classical realism, and the moral construction of
power politics, International Organization 58.4
