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The contours of Chinas soft power profile include Chinese loans, infrastructure projects and an official position in the debate for socio political and economic orders.
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China can learn from Germany's miscalculations in military aggrandizement. Your neighbours always respond. They don't want to be provoked.
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Saknas det avsnitt?
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For China, the choice is between economic might and a muted military profile, and military aggramdizement and the arms race and rebalancing that come with it.
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Power is organised around the strongest poles. Economic and military heft create the gravity of the poles.
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Nuclear weapons have not stopped nuclear armed states from military adventures against states without nuclear Arms.
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Collective security systems involve all the nations of the earth while Collective Defense systems are exclusive and are designed to respond to a specified threat.
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Supranational institutions sit above and govern nations while international institutions do not have political powers that override the national will.
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Policies can have both realist and idealist intentions and consequences that may or may not respect the inclinations of their creator.
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If the world is a playground, the bug bully holds considerable sway. These kids are a little smart, however, because they will gang uo to balance against te strength of the bully.
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The world is anarchic and states use power to ensure their security, first and foremost.
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Hard power is military power while soft power is all the power that does not include the use of military force.
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If you like individual freedoms, choose democracy. Liberal systems guarantee freedoms to the individual that illiberal systems do not.
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Inequality is a political question while poverty is an economic question.
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Although China's economy is large and its industry well advanced, the Chinese have significant technological gaps to fill in order to match advanced economies.
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National Capacities are the legal blocks with which the state builds its foreign policy.
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I embark on an exploration of the broad strokes of French Geopolitical strategy and industrial policy from the postwar period to the present day.