Trzy wymiary władzy w stosunkach międzynarodowych. O możliwości zastosowania trójwymiarowej teorii władzy Stevena Lukesa w ramach realizmu neoklasycznego

Book chapter2020Dominik Tylka
Citation

Tylka, Dominik. “Trzy wymiary władzy w stosunkach międzynarodowych. O możliwości zastosowania trójwymiarowej teorii władzy Stevena Lukesa w ramach realizmu neoklasycznego.” In Wojna – konflikt – spór. Obszary rywalizacji w przestrzeni międzynarodowej. T. 2, edited by Roman Kordonski, Aleksandra Kordonska and Łukasz Muszyński, 287–300. Olsztyn–Lwów, 2020.

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Abstract

The chapter examines whether Steven Lukes’s three-dimensional theory of power can be incorporated into a neoclassical realist research programme. It compares central concepts in both approaches, including the international system and situation of action, the state and the subject of power, national and real interests, foreign-policy preferences and individual preferences, and state capabilities and power.

Author's summary

This paper explores a bridge between general power theory and international-relations theory. Its main conclusion is that most central categories of Lukes’s framework can be mapped onto neoclassical realism without conceptual contradiction, while state capability and relational power should remain analytically distinct.

Keywords

Steven Lukes, conflict, international politics, state power, political theory, power, neoclassical realism

About the author

Dominik Tylka

Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

Dominik Tylka is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. His research focuses on social and political power, individual agency, and the conditions under which asymmetries of resources become effective and relatively durable relations of compliance. He is particularly interested in the interaction between social structures and individual responses, including obedience, adaptation, circumvention and resistance.

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