Power and Sovereignty

a coercive approach to international political relations, especially one that involves the use of military power.

• Hard Power

• Soft Power

• Smart Power

• All the above

 is its ability to make friends and influence people not through military might, but through its most attractive assets, notably culture, education, language and values. In short, it’s the things that make people love a country rather than fear it, things that are often the products of people, institutions and culture rather than governments.

• Hard Power

• Soft Power

• Smart Power

• All of the above

 involves the strategic use of diplomacy, persuasion, capacity building, and the projection of power and influence in ways that are cost-effective and have political and social legitimacy – essentially the engagement of both military force and all forms of diplomacy.

• Hard Power

• Soft Power

• Smart Power

• All of the above

is multiple countries working together on a given issue.

• Multilateralism

• Unilateralism

is one country working alone on a given issue.

• Multilateralism

• Unilateralism

refers to as a large group of people who share a common identity and constitute an "imagined community." Usually grounded on a common historical, ethnic, religious, or linguistic background.

• Nation

• State

• Stateless Nation

• Nation State

responsible for structuring the lives of the people that belong to that community which is usually defined by territorial boundaries.

• Nation

• State

• Nation State

• Multi-Nation State

is the idea of a homogenous nation governed by its own sovereign state—where each state contains one nation. A community in which the political and territorial boundaries coincide with those of a single cultural, ethnic, linguistic and / or historical nation.

• Nation

• State

• Nation State

• Stateless Nation

is a sovereign entity that comprises two or more nations or states.

• Nation

• State

• Nation State

• Multi-Nation State

is an ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state. (example…Kurdistan)

• Multi-Nation State

• Stateless Nation

• Nation State

• Nation