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Introduction: The more things change, the more they...: the changing faces of power 1979-2019 / Giulio M. Gallarotti -- 1. Power: ambiguous not vague / Keith Dowding -- 2. Tales of power / Stewart Clegg and Marco Berti -- 3. The new concepts of power? Power-over, power-to and power-with / Pamela Pansardi and Marianna Bindi -- 4. Conceptual analysis of power: basic trends / Valeri Ledyaev -- 5. The faces of power revisited / David A. Baldwin -- 6. Power and domination / Steven Lukes -- 7. Linking the prepositions: using power analysis to inform strategies for social action / John Gaventa -- 8. An application of the four-dimensional model of power: the case of Khutsong / Johan Zaaiman and Gift Mupambwa -- 9. The four dimensions of power: conflict and democracy / Mark Haugaard -- 10. Why does publicity matter? Power, not deliberation / Clarissa Rile Hayward -- 11. Soft power: the evolution of a concept / Joseph S. Nye -- 12. The changing? Face of power in international relations, 1979-2019 / Giulio M. Gallarotti -- 13. Heterarchy: Toward Paradigm Shift in World Politics / Rosalba Belmonte and Philip G. Cerny

"This book is about how the rise of democracy has transformed economics over the past 150 years. As voting was expanded to the masses in the late 19th Century, political leaders faced new pressures to deliver prosperity to their newly enfranchised populations. This led to the rise of the guardian state: a state whose prime directive is to protect economic growth and employment. Domestic economic goals now became the prime directive and if that meant a failure on the international stage to construct solutions to problems in monetary or trade relations, so be it. The book traces the history of international monetary diplomacy during this period to show how the guardian state has manifested itself, and how it has shaped the course of international monetary relations. Each of the most important international monetary conferences in history are scrutinized with respect to how nations sought to protect the prosperity within their national economies. The historical narratives give a bird's eye view into how domestic political priorities have intruded on and shaped economic relations among nations. This book clearly demonstrates the advantages of an interdisciplinary understanding of how politics shapes economics. It will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of international economics, politics and economic history. Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor of Government and a Tutor in the College of Social Studies - as well as member of the faculty of the College of the Environment - at Wesleyan University, USA. He is also Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, USA (2018-present), and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Rome, Italy (1994)"--

The theory of the power curse -- The power curse across history -- The Bush doctrine and power illusion -- In lieu of conclusions

"How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this vision, nations require the muscle and strategies to compel compliance and achieve their full power potential. But in fact, changes in world politics have increasingly encouraged national leaders to complement traditional power resources with more enlightened strategies oriented around the use of soft power resources. The resources to compel compliance have to be increasingly integrated with the resources to cultivate compliance. Only through this integration of hard and soft power can nations truly achieve their greatest strength in modern world politics, and this realization carries important implications for competing paradigms of international relations. The idea of power optimization can only be delivered through the integration of the three leading paradigms of international relations: Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism"--Provided by publisher

How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this vision, nations require the muscle and strategies to compel compliance and achieve their full power potential. But in fact, changes in world politics have increasingly encouraged national leaders to complement traditional power resources with more enlightened strategies oriented around the use of soft power resources. The resources to compel compliance have to be increasingly integrated with the resources to cultivate compliance. Only through this integration of hard and soft power can nations truly achieve their greatest strength in modern world politics, and this realization carries important implications for competing paradigms of international relations. The idea of power optimization can only be delivered through the integration of the three leading paradigms of international relations: Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism

Thomas Hobbes is regarded as a major intellectual precursor of realist theory. Such veneration has brought about ample reactions from various scholars who aver that the use of Hobbes'vision of anarchy as an analogy for building greater theories of international relations is problematic at best. Yet, while such critiques of the realist analogy have been abundant, they have devoted scant attention to important passages in the Leviathan (that is, the tale of the fool in Chapter 15) that would produce greater clarity about Hobbes' logic regarding the state of nature. Indeed, a careful textual analysis of the tale of the fool demonstrates that as an analogy for a state of war (that is, as an environment devoid of cooperation) Hobbes' vision of anarchy is even more problematic than what previous critiques suggest. The tale strongly re-inforces critical scholarship that embraces ample opportunities for cooperation (covenants) in a Hobbesian state of nature (that is, without a Leviathan to impose order). The precise Hobbesian logic evident in this tale, in fact, reflects both strong neoliberal and constructivist elements in what many would consider a least-likely place: in Hobbes' vision of anarchy. So while Hobbes has been hailed as the first early modern realist, he could also be cited as the first early modern neoliberal and constructivist. In this respect, Hobbes' own synthesis of elements of realism, constructivism and neoliberalism holds much promise for inspiring a new and more sophisticated vision of international relations: Cosmopolitik.