Intro to IR / conceptual tools Flashcards
What is compulsory power?
focus on resources, intention, agents, visible conflict
direct control over another
on international action: A using resources to get B to do something B doesn’t want to do
Police intervention of just stop oil occupations
What is institutional power?
rules, norms, procedures > resources - FAVOUR SOME INTERESTS OVER OTHERS (NATO)
… that control over socially distant others
mobilisation of bias as there’s no obvious actor who possesses a resource < a set of impersonal procedures that shape/constrain interaction
Home office to introduce jail sentences or fines for protestors ‘locking onto’ people, objects or building
what is structural power?
social relations
shape capacities and interests of actors in relation to one another
shaped by persistent assumptions
one actor only exists by virtue of their relationship to another
structural concerns the determination of social capacities and interests - board social tendencies
State vs citizens property… police power to stop & search…
what is productive power?
knowledge production of subjects, beliefs, values and perceptions - WHAT IS LEGITIMATE KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL IDENTITY (common sense)
unlike structural power, PRODUCTIVE POWER IS MORE DIFFUSED AND GENERALISED
concerns DISCOURSE = systems of knowledge through which meaning is PRODUCED, FIXED AND TRANSFORMED
‘Wokerati’ - who’s agenda is legitimate? Is protest criminal activity or a democratic act?
What are the 4 types of power?
compulsory; institutional; structural; productive
what do all forms do?
all forms are present and interact with each other
Why is it important to consider the taxonomy of power?
Power as a multifaceted concept
Understood differently in different traditions
In turn leads us to locate it in different forms
Direct or diffuse? BARNETT & DUVALL
Specific interactions of wider social relations/structure?
