The poverty of power in military power: how collective power could benefit strategic studies

Jan Angstrom and Peter Haldén

Defense & Security Analysis, 2019, vol. 35, issue 2, 170-189

Abstract: Strategic studies deals intimately with the topic of power. Most scholars in the discipline work with a concept of power as an adversarial zero-sum competition. This is natural and necessary. However, other conceptions of power developed within political science and sociology could enrich strategic studies. Approaching two typical, traditional tasks of strategy – alliance building and war-fighting – this article demonstrates the heuristic mileage of theories of collective power. In particular, we can shed new light on the post-Cold War transformation of NATO as well as state-building as a strategy in counter-insurgencies with new ideas of power. Broadening the palette of theories of power is thus valuable if strategic studies is to prosper as an independent field of study.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/14751798.2019.1600812

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