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This article recalls the perennial debates in international relations theory regarding power, applied to the common assumption that the US is a "superpower" & especially the "War on Terror." There have been startlingly different assessments of the power of the US since the end of WWII. A central problem derives from bad theory, specifically realism & its familiar list of "power factors" that supposedly contribute to the overall power of a state. The US rates highly on any such list, but the exercise is very misleading. Each power factor has a "downside." Power is always relative to actor(s), issues, & context; quality leadership matters & "soft power" in its several dimensions is also extremely important. In these respects, the power exercised by the present George W. Bush Administration is narrowly military & poorly suited to combating terror or exercising influence in global politics generally. Adapted from the source document.

Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: The dynamics of Latin American foreign policies: challenges for the 1980s / Lincoln, Jenni K. ; Ferris, Elizabeth G. (Eds.). - Boulder/Colo. : Westview, 1984. - 325 S