Military force is a blunt and ineffectual instrument of power in the international system: do you agree?
- From the structure of the international system to the unavoidability of military force as an instrument of power
- Anarchy of the international system and the realist conception of power
- Active use of military forces through coercion
- Deterrence strategies: a passive use of the military instrument
- Contemporary limits to the use of military power: toward a transformation of the use of military force in liberal democracies
- New forms of international violence: the diminishing outcome of the use of force
- Interdependence and soft power in international relations undermining the utility of military force as an instrument of power
- Smart power and Civilian power: concepts leading toward a new use of military force as an instrument of power
- Cases study: Germany and China military builds-up
- Chinese military build-up: securing a status of great power using a realist approach
- Germany: modification of the Bundeswehr structure and objective in order to comply with new realities
Since its presupposed apparition with the Thucydide's narration of the Peloponnesian war, the study of International Relations has, focused on the military force. It is an element omnipresent in the international system since the apparition of the Westphalian order, and even before the military force has constituted a fundamental instrument between states playing preponderant role addressing disputes and power relations through the prism of war among rival organized societies. Recent developments among the field of International Relations tend to hand-over the traditional view on military capability to fulfill its attribute of power. However, with respect to the affirmation proposed, "Military force is a blunt and ineffectual instrument of power in the contemporary international system". The present paper will develop a contradictory posture.
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