WEEK 3 - 2

Question 1

preliminary power definition

Answer 1

“pouvoir” to be able

• ability to do
• ability to convince others (soft power)
• ability to force others (hard power)

Question 2

modern conservative state power view

Answer 2

• necessary in anarchic world
• Hobbes machiavelli
• IR realists - hard power defines all

Question 3

modern liberal state power view

Answer 3

• state power is dangerous, kept checked by cit. rights and const.
• JS Mill, John Locke
• IR Liberals - soft power is important

Question 4

marxist state power view

Answer 4

• state power illusionary; real power in Econ. realm and oppressive
• Marx - revolution necessary to overturn Econ. system

Question 5

all 3 modern state power theories…

Answer 5

see power as capacity to be used against citizens harmfully and repressively

Question 6

challenge to modern concepts

Answer 6

• power is not capacity to be held but circulates
• power can be creative force
• power extends beyond state

Question 7

Chomsky vs. Foucault debate

Answer 7

Modern Marxist Chomsky
- power held by Econ./politic institutions
- power is coercive, repressive
- revolution necessary to rid state
Post-modern Foucault
- power beyond state/institutions
- power circulates
- need to deconstruct

Question 8

authority definition

Answer 8

legitimate exercise of power

Question 9

distinction between power and authority

Answer 9

authority without power
- Mandela in prison

power without authority
- authoritarian regime

power with authority
- power exercised within legitimate limits and supported by people

Question 10

Webers typology of authority (3 authority types)

Answer 10

rational legal authority

• rule by office
• rule of law basis
• obedience to office not individual

traditional authority

• rule by right
• organic rather than enacted
• obedience based on inherited status/customary rule

charismatic authority

• rule by exceptional qualities
• indiv. seen as hero
• obedience based on devotion

Question 11

2 aspects to sovereignty

Answer 11

• relationships to states

- relationship to citizens/subgroups

Question 12

sovereignty importance

Answer 12

internal
- counter parallel authority within state
external
- protect smaller states from larger

Question 13

challenges to sovereignty

Answer 13

globalization

• economic
• Information/tech
• people movement

identity

• regional/national sovereignty claims
• indigenous rights - UN declaration

Question 14

key concept of authority

Answer 14

legitimacy