Power, structural power, and American decline

@DrKevorkO But as a more overarching point, aggregate capability measures are bad, and proxy metrics for capability are worse. https://t.co/UrzWc6rsDq

@NDMLees @PatPorter76 @MariusGhincea In the main, I think David Baldwin’s and Stefano Guzzini’s work on the concept of power in IR should have demolished power as a property concept long ago, and with it capability-based analysis. I review some of that in

@KevinLi26651602 @CGPC_Surrey @europeanisa @dhnexon @stevenelobell @RevePedi @koonkel @PanosVasileiad9 @adamjamesquinn @LeslieWehner @nicoblar @NielsvWilligen @eunajo_ @matte_di14 @AmbrozekMateusz So that's the realist baseline, right? But it doesn't actua

.@NickKitchen1 and Michael Cox explain that the prevailing order at a given time "has a huge amount of inertia built into it," a reality that privileges that system's principal architects (p. 747). https://t.co/gPLlyqq96d [6/8]