International System, States And Economic Interdependence
Power is Currency of International Relations.
7/25/20241 min read
And by that States are deeply Interested in the balance of power and they're interested in maximizing how much power they control.
And the question is why States care so much about power.
" In the International System, there's no higher Authority. so if you get into trouble and you dial 911, there's nobody at the other end."
And system like that, you have Choice, but to figure out for yourself, how best to protect yourself.
And the best way to protect yourself is to be powerful, to have as much Power as you can possibly gain over all the other states in the system.
The problem in International Politics. is that there is no world state, there is no hierarchy
And if you have no Hierarchy You're in Anarchic system, you have no choice but to try to maximize your relative Power.
The pursuit of power, It's an structural argument that say's when you are in particular Structure, when you're in system that has a specific Architecture, Which is Anarchy, the states have no choice but to compete for power.