Barnett and Duvall 2005

Power in International Politics Author(s): Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall Source: International Organization, Vol. 59, No.
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Power in International Politics

Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall
relations.Yet disciplinThe concept of power is centralto international Abstract ary discussions tend to privilege only one, albeit important,form: an actor controlling anotherto do what that other would not otherwise do. By showing conceptual favoritism, the discipline not only overlooks the different forms of power in internationalpolitics, but also fails to develop sophisticatedunderstandingsof how global outcomes are produced and how actors are differentially enabled and constrainedto determinetheir fates. We argue that scholars of internationalrelations should employ multiple conceptions of power and develop a conceptual frameworkthat encourages rigorous attentionto power in its different forms. We first begin by producing a taxonomy of power. Power is the production,in and through social relations, of effects that shape the capacities of actors to determine their circumstances and fate. This general concept entails two crucial, analytical dimensions: the kinds of social relations throughwhich power works (in relations of interactionor in social relations of constitution); and the specificity of social relations through which effects are produced (specific/direct or diffuse/indirect). These distinctions generateour taxonomy and four concepts of power: compulsory,institutional,structural,and productive.We then illustrate how attentionto the multiple forms of power mattersfor the analysis of global governanceandAmericanempire.We conclude by urging scholarsto beware of the idea that the multiple concepts are competing, and instead to see connections between them in order to generate more robust understandingsof how power works in internationalpolitics.
The potentially system-defining attacks of September 11, the war on terrorism, and the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq have caused scholars and practitioners to refocus attention on a central concept in international politics: power. If the past is a good predictor of the future, however, debate is likely to be limited
at in Governs GlobalGovernance?" theUniThisarticlewas firstpresented a conference, "Who at Emanuel at the We Adler, including versityof Wisconsin-Madison. thank participants the conference, Jutta Jon Martha HelenKinsella, Alex Wendt, NetaCrawford, Weldes, Finnemore, Sikkink, Kathryn
Pevehouse, Andrew Hurrell,John Ruggie, and especially Duncan Snidal, Robert Keohane, and Charles Kupchan. Other versions were presented at the University of Minnesota and the InternationalStudies Association meetings in Budapest, Hungaryin June, 2003. We also want to thankKurt Burch, Thomas Diez, Tom Donahue, William Duvall, Ayten Gundogdu,Stefano Guzzini, Colin Kahl, Amit Ron, Latha Michael Williams, Anne-Marie Slaughter,the editors of the journal, and two anonymous Varadarajan, reviewers. We also acknowledge the bibliographic assistance of Emilie Hafner-Burtonand Jonathan Havercroft. International Organization59, Winter 2005, pp. 39-75 0 2005 by The IO Foundation.
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conceptually, informed primarilyby a realist conception of power-the ability of states to use materialresources to get others to do what they otherwise would not. Indeed, this is alreadyhappening. Much of the conversationtriggeredby the U.S. invasion of Iraq, for instance, has focused on unipolarity,the ability of the United States to use its military and economic resources to overcome resistance by states and nonstate actors, and whether other states will balance against or bandwagon with U.S. power. Certainly, any consideration of power in internationalpolitics must include such questions. But, Mae West's views notwithstanding,too much of a good thing is not always wonderful. Instead, it can produce theoretical tunnel vision that causes scholars to overlook others forms and effects of power. In this essay we argue that scholars of internationalrelations must work with multiple conceptions of power, suggest how they can accomplish this task, and demonstrate how a consideration of power's polymorphous characterwill enhance and deepen theoretic understandingof internationalpolitics. Ever since Carrdelivered his devastatingrhetoricalblow against the "utopians" and claimed power for "realism," discipline of international relationshas tended the to treat power as the exclusive province of realism.' Accordingly, a concern with power in internationalpolitics is frequently interpretedas a disciplinary attachment to realism. Associated with this tendency, there is a widely accepted conceptualizationthat is viewed as the only way to understandpower: how one state uses its materialresources to compel another state to do something it does not want to do. Most introductorytexts to internationalrelations cleave to this formulation. Attempts by scholars to operationalize power follow from this definition.2 The substantialliteratureon the "paradoxesof power" revolves aroundthe disconnect between capabilities and outcomes.3 The disciplinary tendency to associate power with realism and to work primarily with the realist conceptualizationpartly owes to the fact that rivals to realism typically distance themselves from "power"considerations.4This featurehas been especially visible in recent years, as neoliberal institutionalists,liberals, and constructivistshave attemptedto demonstratetheir theoreticalsalience by demonstrating how "power"variables are not causally consequential in their explanation of empirical outcomes. Neoliberals have arguedhow states with convergent interests createinternational institutionsand arrangements effectively tame (state)power, that highlighting processes of social choice and leaving the impression that institutions are the antidote to power.5 Scholars of liberal internationalrelations theory typically stress that many important international outcomes cannot be adequately explained with reference to power, but instead are better understoodby the salu-
1. Carr 1964.
2. See Mansfield 2001. 1993;Stoll andWard 1989;Ray andSinger1973;andMearsheimer
3. SeeBaldwin and 1989. 1989; Maoz
4. Werecognize narrative thediscipline this of othercontributions never that overlooks necessarily Laterin the articlewe introduce realism. someof thesealternative pivotedaround perspectives.
5. SeeKeohane andKeohane Martin and 1995. 1984;
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tary presence of democracy,particularconfigurationsof domestic interests, liberal values, economic interdependence,or internationalinstitutions.6Mainstreamconstructivists, too, have pitted themselves against explanations in terms of power as they have attempted to demonstrate the causal significance of normative structures and processes of learning and persuasion.7 Because these rivals to realism have juxtaposed their arguments to realism's emphasis on power, they have neglected to develop how power is conceptualized and operates within their theories. It could have been otherwise. These theoretical approachesdraw from distinct social theoretic traditionsthat offer critical insights have tended into the forms and effects of power.Althoughneoliberalinstitutionalists to highlight how internationalinstitutions produce cooperation, they could just as easily have emphasized how institutions shape the bargainingadvantageof actors, freeze asymmetries, and establish parametersfor change that benefit some at the expense of others. Although liberals have tended to limit their claims to the liberalism of "progress,"they could have developed the liberalism of "fear" that is more centrally concerned with power.8Although constructivistshave emphasized how underlyingnormativestructuresconstituteactors' identities and interests, they have rarely treated these normative structuresthemselves as defined and infused by power, or emphasized how constitutive effects also are expressions of power. A consequence of this failure to develop alternativeconceptualizationsof power has been to reinforce the discipline's gravitationtoward the default conception as defined by realism. Yet, as famously noted by Gallie, and as repeated by social theorists ever since, power is an essentially contested concept.9Its status owes not only to the desire by scholars to agree to disagree, but also to their awareness that power works in various forms and has various expressions that cannot be captured by a single formulation. The failure to develop alternativeconceptualizationsof power limits the ability of international relations scholars to understandhow global outcomes are produced and how actors are differentiallyenabled and constrainedto determinetheir fates. One certainly needs to know about the ability of actors to use resources to control the behavior of others. The United States is able to use its military power to compel others to change their foreign policies, and in the contemporaryperiod transnational activists have been able to shame multinationalcorporationsand abusive governments to alter their economic and human rights policies, respectively. Any discussion of power in internationalpolitics, then, must include a consideration of how, why, and when some actors have "power over" others. Yet one also needs to consider the enduring structuresand processes of global life that enable and constrainthe ability of actors to shape their fates and their futures. The exten-
6. See Moravcsik 1997; and Slaughter 1995.
7. See Katzenstein 1996; Risse 2001; Checkel 2001; and Finnemore 2003. 8. Keohane 2002.
9. Gallie 1956.
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sion of sovereignty from the West to the developing world gave decolonized states the authorityto voice their interests and representthemselves, and the emergence of a human rights discourse helped to make possible the very category of human rights activists who give voice to human rights norms. Analysis of power in international relations, then, must include a considerationof how social structuresand processes generate differential social capacities for actors to define and pursue their interests and ideals.'l The startingpoint for opening the conceptual apertureis to identify the critical dimensions that generate different conceptualizationsof power. In general terms, power is the production, in and through social relations, of effects that shape the capacities of actors to determine their circumstances and fate." The general concept of power that we employ is restrictedto the productionof particularkinds of effects, namely those on the capacities of actors to determine the conditions of their existence. There is an alternativetraditionthat sees power as the production of any and all effects and thus as nearly synonymous with causality.12 What does this alternativetraditionkeep in that we leave out? It includes social relations of joint action throughmutual agreement and interactionsin which one actor is able to convince another actor to alter voluntarily and freely its beliefs, interests, or action. Persuasion, then, is social causation but falls outside of our concept of power. So, too, do processes of collective choice that produce joint action. We believe that our circumscribedconception is preferable for two reasons. It better reflects conventional understandingsinsofar as most scholars interested in power are concernednot simply with how effects are produced,but ratherwith how these effects work to the advantage of some and the disadvantage of others. We also believe that a focus on differentialeffects on actor capacities is, empirically,closer to the mark in most social relations. There are moments of completely voluntary persuasion and collective choice, but they are certainly rare and, on close inspection, likely to have uneven effects. thatconceptualdistinctionsof power should This definitioninformsour argument be represented in terms of two analytical dimensions that are at the core of the general concept: the kinds of social relations throughwhich power works; and the specificity of social relations through which effects on actors' capacities are produced. The first dimension-kinds-refers to the polar positions of social relations of interactionand social relationsof constitution.Accordingly,power is either an attributeof particularactors and their interactions or a social process of constituting what actors are as social beings, that is, their social identities and capacities. It can operate, for example, by pointing a gun and issuing commands, or in underlying social structuresand systems of knowledge that advantage some and
10. See Isaac 1987, 75-77; Hayward 2000, 8; and Giddens 1979, 88. 11. This definition slightly amends Scott 2001, 1-2, by pointing explicitly to the operationof power through social relations. 12. Oppenheim 1981.
disadvantageothers. The second dimension-specificity-concerns the degree to which the social relations throughwhich power works are direct and socially specific or indirectand socially diffuse. It can operate,for example, at the very instant when the gun is brandished, or through diffuse processes embedded in international institutions that establish rules determining who gets to participate in debates and make decisions. These two dimensions generate our taxonomy of four types of power.13Effective taxonomic exercises must try to "carve nature at its joints" to derive critical, Towardthis end, in the first secmutually exclusive, and exhaustive distinctions.14 tion below we present our attempt to carve power at its joints. The first type is power as relations of interaction of direct control by one actor over anotherCompulsory Power; the second is the control actors exercise indirectly over others through diffuse relations of interaction-Institutional Power; the third is the constitution of subjects' capacities in direct structuralrelation to one anotherStructuralPower; and the fourth is the socially diffuse production of subjectivity in systems of meaning and signification-Productive Power. These different conceptualizations provide distinct answers to the fundamental question: in what respects are actors able to determine their fate, and how is that ability limited or enhanced through social relations with others? Our taxonomy of power offers several advantages for scholars of international relations theory. First, because it is founded on an explicit and logically systematic decomposition of the general concept of power, it is able to detach discussions of power from the limitations of realism and to encourage scholars to see power's multiple forms. Realism's prominence has contributedto a situation in which scholars are often asked to choose a realist formulationto the neglect of an alternative, or vice versa.15 Those who want to expand the conceptualization of power frequentlypose theirs as a supplementor an alternativeto the realist benchmark. Nye, for example, offers his concept of "soft power" as a counterpointto the realist emphasis on "hardpower."16 Gruber'sconcept of "go-it-alone power" is a modificationof realist-influencedapproaches.17 Although these statementsuse-
critical issue is, 'What kind of subject is being produced?'" Digeser 1992, 980. For other summaries of these faces, see Hayward 2000, chap. 1; and Hay 1997. Because the four faces developed sequentially througha progressive debate about gaps and absences in priorconceptions, they are not elements
Underthe secondface, 'Whatissues havebeenmobilized the agendaandby whom?'Underthe off radical 'Whoseobjective interests beingharmed?' are Underthe fourth face of powerthe conception,
13. Our taxonomy bears some resemblance to, but is distinct from, the conventional "four faces" approachto power because, we contend, ours is analytically more systematic and precise, and conceptually more general. Digeser nicely summarizesthe differences among the four faces in the following way: "Under the first face of power the central question is, 'Who, if anyone, is exercising power?'
in a systematic Thereareno analytical dimensions distinguish that acrossall fourfaces,and typology. the faces overlap blurintoone another. and 14. Hempel1952and1965.
15. Classic texts include Carr 1964; Morgenthau1967; Knorr 1973; and Claude 1962. 16. Nye 1990; 2002.
17. Gruber 2000.
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fully expand the scope of the concept, their posing as an alternativeto a realist formulationpresumesthat scholarsmust choose sides. Because our taxonomyalerts scholarsto the fact thatmultiple forms of power are simultaneouslypresentin international politics, it discourages a presumptivedismissal of other conceptual forms. Second, our approach provides a framework for integration. Taxonomies not only highlight distinct types but also point to connections between them. In other words, the different types should not be seen as necessarily competing concepts, but rather as different forms in which power works in internationalpolitics. Our framework,therefore,suggests how scholars might consider how productivepower makes some instances of compulsory power possible and legitimate, and, in turn, how compulsory power shapes the terms of meaning that influence how actors see what is possible and desirable. Third, our approachrepresents a decisive advantage over recent contributions to the debate about power in internationalrelations because it incorporatesboth social relationsof interactionand constitution,thatis, both "powerover"and "power to." Baldwin's influential contributions have relied heavily on a Dahlian formulation-in which A exercises influence over B-and then attempt to incorporate a variety of concerns, including unintendedeffects and nonmaterialmeans of influence.18Although we agree with him on many points, a fundamentalproblem is that his actor-orientedapproachis incapable of recognizing social relations of constitution and how power inheres in structuresand discourses that are not possessed or controlledby any single actor.In a series of importantarticles, Guzzini has urged international relations scholars to expand their understanding of power.19Although our approachesoverlap, they nevertheless differ in two important respects. First, he insists that power be reserved for moments when an actor intentionally produces effects, and that constitutive argumentsbe understood as 20 "governance." We believe that by limiting power to those effects that are intentionally produced,he unnecessarily overlooks the importantways in which effects on the capacities and courses of action available to actors are unintentionallyproduced through social relations. Also, by treatingpower as an "agent concept" and creating a new concept, "governance,"for those "effects not due to a particular agent," he establishes a false dichotomy.21Governancenecessarily entails power; the two are not in conceptual opposition. Our taxonomy, therefore,provides a systematic way of thinking about power in terms of both agency and structure,and thus allows us to incorporatethe two elements of his argumentin a single integrated conceptual framework. Last, but hardly least, our taxonomy does not map precisely onto differenttheories of internationalrelations. To be sure, each theoretical traditiondoes favor an
20. Guzzini1993.
21. Ibid., 443.
18. See Baldwin 1980, 1989, and 2002. 19. See Guzzini 1993, 2000, and 2002.
understandingof power that correspondsto one or anotherof the concepts distinguished by our taxonomy. For instance, as noted above, realists work with versions that correspond to compulsory power, and critical theorists typically work with versions that correspondto structuralor productive power. But, as we show, it need not be this way. Scholars can and should draw from various conceptualizations of power that are associated with other theoretical schools. We believe that such poaching and cross-fertilizationis healthy,needed, and might, in a small way, help scholars move away from perpetual rivalry in disciplinary "ism" wars and toward dialogue across theoreticalperspectives. In the second section we briefly illustratewhy attentionto the multiple forms of power affects empirical research throughreference to two domains of contemporary theoretical significance-global governance and the debate over American empire.As scholarscontinueto considerpower in international politics, they would do well not to fixate on a single renditionbut instead to appreciatehow the range of conceptualizationsprovides the basis for a better,richer, and fuller understanding of the workings of world politics. We conclude on this theme, briefly discussing how such cross-fertilization builds bridges between these concepts, and how scholars might think about the possible relationships.
Conceptualizing Power
Power is the production,in and through social relations, of effects on actors that shape their capacity to control their fate. This concept has two dimensions at its core: (1) the kinds of social relations throughwhich actors' capacities are affected (and effected); and, (2) the specificity of those social relations. Conventionallyfor social theorists, social relations can be viewed as being broadly of two kinds: relations of interactionamong previously constitutedsocial actors; or relations of constitution of actors as particularkinds of social beings. For the second dimension, the crucial distinction is whether the social relations of interactionor constitution through which power works are direct and specific, or indirect and socially diffuse. Below we explore each dimension, then show how the polar positions within each dimension combine to generate our taxonomy of power. How Power Is Expressed: Interaction or Constitution The first dimension concerns whether power works in interactions or social constitution. One position on this dimension treats social relations as comprised of the actions of preconstitutedsocial actors toward one another.Here, power works through behavioral relations or interactions, which, in turn, affect the ability of others to control the circumstancesof their existence. In these conceptions, power nearly becomes an attributethat an actor possesses and may use knowingly as a resource to shape the actions or conditions of action of others.
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The otherposition consists of social relationsof constitution.Here, power works throughsocial relations that analytically precede the social or subject positions of actors and that constitute them as social beings with their respective capacities and interests. Constitutiverelations cannot be reduced to the attributes,actions, or interactions of pregiven actors. Power, accordingly,is irreduciblysocial. In other words, constitutive argumentsexamine how particularsocial relations are responsible for producingparticularkinds of actors.As Wendtputs it, "Constitutivetheories . . . account for the propertiesof things by reference to the structuresin virtue of which they exist."22 Because these social relations, in effect, generate different social kinds that have different self- (and other-) understandingsand capacities, they have real consequences for an actor's ability to shape the conditions and processes of its existence. This conceptual distinction between power working through social relations of interactionor in social relations of constitutiontracksfairly closely with a distinction that frequents the literatureon power: "power over" and "power to." Concepts of power rooted in behaviorand interactionpoint to actors'exercise of control over others;they are, then, "powerover"concepts. Concepts of power tied to social relations of constitution, in contrast,consider how social relations define who the actors are and what capacities and practices they are socially empoweredto undertake; these concepts are, then, focused on the social productionof actors' "power to." Some scholars, who examine how constitutive relations make possible certain types of action, focus on how community or collective action are facilitated, while others stress how the social relations of constitution can have a disciplining effect In and therefore lead to self-regulation and internalizedconstraints.23 either case, though, the concern is with the effect of social relations of constitution on human capacity. This interaction/constitutive distinction also foregroundsparticularfeatures of the effects of power. Because power is a property of actors' actions and interactions in behavioral conceptions, there is a strong tendency to see its effects primarily in terms of the behavior of the object of power. In contrast, constitutive power is generally seen as producing effects only in terms of the identities of the occupants of social positions. We want to stress, though, that there is no ontological or epistemological reason why scholars working with one of those concepts need exclude the effects identifiedby the other.If power works throughthe actions of specific actors in shaping the ways and the extent to which other actors exercise control over their fate, it can have a variety of effects, ranging from directly affectingthe behaviorof othersto settingthe termsof theirvery self-understandings; behavioral power, then, can have effects on actors' subjectivities and selfunderstandings.Similarly, if power is in social relations of constitution, it works
22. Wendt 1998, 105. 23. For the former, see Arendt 1959; Habermas 1986; and Barnes 1988. For the latter, see Foucault 1995; Isaac 1987; and Hayward 2000.
in fixing what actors are as social beings, which, in turn, defines the meaningful practices in which they are disposed to engage as subjects; constitutive power, then, has effects on behavioraltendencies. Thus scholars examining power through social interactioncan see effects on social identities, and those examining power through constitutive relations can see effects on action. The Specificity of Social Relations of Power: Direct or Diffuse The second core analytical dimension concerns how specific-direct and immediate-are the social relations through which power works. Specific relations of power entail some immediate and generally tangible causal or constitutive connection between the subject and the object, or between two subjects. Scholars working with this conception tend to presume that connections between actors are mechanistic, flush with contact, direct, or logically necessary.A consequence of this dependence on social proximity is that it becomes more difficult to observe power in operationthe greateris the social distance, the lag between stimthese connections. ulus and effect, or the absence of logical necessity, characterizing This approachis nicely summarizedby Dahl's famous claim that there is "no action at a distance."24 Although Dahl intentionally left vague both what counts as "distance"and the meaning of "connection"between two actors, he stressed that a relation of power is knowable if and only if there is an observable and traceable connection between A and B. Consequently, while his conceptualizationdid not preclude the idea of power as spatially, temporally,or socially indirect or diffuse, it did work against it. But it is not only Dahl's and related behavioral conceptions that operate with a specific and direct view of power. Some constitutive analyses do so as well. For example, scholarssuch as Bhaskar,Giddens, and Wendt point to the structured relationshipof co-constitutionbetween social roles or structural positions (such as Marxian class categories), and how their social capacities are defined in direct and specific relation to other roles or positions.25In this way, they identify a direct and specific relationshipbetween the social positions, which are jointly constituted structurally.26 This is how Marxist approachesconsider, for instance, the co-constitutive social relations of capital and labor in capitalism;the capitalist class structuregenerates distinctive social capacities and interests of the social positions of capital and labor.In general, specific relationsconcern the direct causal/constitutive connection between actors that are in physical, historical, or social positional proximity. Otherapproachessee power in indirect and socially diffuse relations. Insteadof insisting that power work through an immediate, direct, and specific relationship, these conceptions allow for the possibility of power even if the connections are
24. Dahl 1957,204. 25. See Bhaskar 1979;Giddens 1984;andWendt1999. 26. Also see Isaac1987.
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detachedand mediated,or operateat a physical, temporal,or social distance. Scholars that locate power in the rules of institutions, whether formal or informal, frequently trace its operationto such indirect mechanisms.Those examining concrete institutions have shown how evolving rules and decision-making procedures can shape outcomes in ways that favor some groupsover others;these effects can operate over time and at a distance, and often in ways that were not intended or anticipated by the architects of the institution.27 Similarly, scholars influenced by examine how historically and contingently produced discourses poststructuralism the subjectivities of actors; the very reason for genealogical and discourseshape analytic methods is to demonstratehow systems of knowledge and discursive practices producesubjectsthroughsocial relationsthatare quite indirect,socially diffuse, and temporally distant.28For instance, students of gender, race, and nation routinely recognize how socially diffuse discourses, and not isolated, direct, and proximate actions, produce the subjects of the modern world.29 Relationalspecificity Direct Interactions Diffuse
of specific
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Compulsory
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Power works through
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Social
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FIGURE1. Taxonomy of power
These two core dimensions-the kinds of social relations throughwhich power works, and the specificity of the social relations throughwhich power's effects are produced-generate a fourfold taxonomy of power as illustratedin Figure 1. Each cell in Figure 1 represents a different conceptual type. Compulsory power exists in the direct control of one actor over the conditions of existence and/or the actions of another.Institutionalpower exists in actors' indirect control over the conditions of action of socially distant others. Structuralpower operates as the constitutive relations of a direct and specific-hence, mutually constituting-kind. Productive power works through diffuse constitutive relations to produce the situated social capacities of actors.
27. Pierson 2000. 28. See Fairclough 1992; and Kendall and Wickham 1999. 29. Kondo 1990.
Because concepts of power are partly distinguishedby the conceptualizedrelationship between agency and structure,our taxonomy relates to the agent-structure duality to the extent thatthe generic concern is with the relationshipbetween social context and human action. We want to stress, though, that because each type of power has at least an implicit view of both agency and structure,none simply reflects an entirely agentic or structuralperspective (to the neglect of the other). Nevertheless, they do vary in specific ways. Compulsory (and, to a lesser degree, institutional) power emphasizes agency to the point where structurebecomes the context in which A's actions and B's reactionsare set and constrained,therebyleaning heavily on agency and treating structureas constraint.In contrast,concepts of structuraland productivepower emphasize structurerelative to purposefulagency, even while recognizing that meaningful practices, and hence, human agency, are essential in producing, reproducingand possibly transformingthese structures. CompulsoryPower: Direct Control Over Another This first concept of power focuses on a range of relations between actors that allow one to shape directly the circumstances or actions of another. Some of the most famous and widely used definitions of power fall under this concept. Weber defined power as the "probabilitythat one actor within a social relationship will be in a position to carryout his own will despite resistance, regardlessof the basis on which this probabilityexists."30 Similarly,Blau defined it as the influence over behavior through negative sanctions.31 In terms of sheer influence, especially for scholars of internationalrelations, For arguablyno definitionsurpassesthatof Dahl's earliestformulation.32 him, power is best understood as the ability of A to get B to do what B otherwise would not do. Dahl's concept has three defining features. One, there is intentionality on the part of Actor A. What counts is that A wants B to alter its actions in a particular direction. If B alters its actions under the mistaken impression that A wants it to, then that would not count as power because it was not A's intent that B do so. Two, there must be a conflict of desires, to the extent that B now feels compelled to alter its behavior. A and B want different outcomes, and B loses. Three, A is successful because it has material and ideational resources at its disposal that lead B to alterits actions.Althoughtheoristshave debatedwhetherthe relevantresources are an intrinsic propertyof actors or are better understoodas part of a relationship of dependence between two or more actors, the underlying claim is that identifiable resources that are controlled and intentionally deployed by actors are what counts for thinking about power.33
30. Weber1947,52. 31. Blau 1964, 115-16.
32. Dahl 1957, 202-3. As Baldwin 2001, 177, claimed, "none rivals this one in widespread acceptability." Dahl modified his views in later statements. See Dahl and Stinebrickner2003. 33. For the first claim, see Emerson 1962; Blau 1964; and Wrong 1988. For the second, see Lasswell and Kaplan 1980; and Russell 1986, 19-20.
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Although Dahl's initial conceptualizationusefully illustratesthe concept of compulsory power, our taxonomy highlights how compulsory power need not hinge on intentionality.34 Compulsorypower is present wheneverA's actions control B's actions or circumstances, even if unintentionally.As Bachrach and Baratz argue, power still exists even when those who dominate are not conscious of how their actions are producingunintendedeffects.35The victims of "collateraldamage" of bombing campaigns certainly experience the power of the deliverer even if it was not the latter's intention to create such damage. Because power is the production of effects, arguablycompulsory power is best understoodfrom the perspective of the recipient, not the deliverer, of the direct action. Compulsory power has significantly influenced thinking about power in international politics.36Specifically, its emphasis on control by identifiable actors over the objections of other actors through deployment (even if only symbolically) of resources informs much of realist thought. For many scholars--both realists and their critics-to study power in internationalrelations is to consider how one state is able to use materialresources to advance its interests in direct opposition to the interests of another state. This approach steers attention to the great powers. Yet major powers are not alone in the ability to deploy resources to overcome the objections of actors. Multinationalcorporationscan use their control over capital to shape the foreign economic policies of developing states, as well as global economic policies. Nonstate networks and groups sometimes conduct campaigns of unconventional warfare that terrorizeentire populations. Compulsory power is not limited to materialresources; it also entails symbolic and normativeresources.37 Nongovernmentalorganizationshave deployed normative resources to compel targetedstates to alter their policies througha strategy of shaming.38Drawing from the work of Goffman and Bourdieu, Barnettarguedthat Arab states have used symbolic sanctions to alter the behavior of otherArab states on a range of issues.39Less powerful members of the Security Council are able to use legal norms to constrainthe actions of the powerful.40 Internationalorganizations are able to use their expert, moral, delegated, and rational-legal authorityas a resource to compel state and nonstate actors to change their behavior.41 In general, scholars should be attentive to a range of technologies and mechanisms as they consider how one actor is able to directly control the conditions of behavior of anotheractor.In fact, there is a long pedigree for doing just that. Carr began this traditionwhen he distinguishedbetween military,economic, and propa34. Onthispointwe agreewithBaldwin withGuzzini1993. 2002, anddisagree 35. Bachrach Baratz1962,952. and 36. See Claude1962;Knorr1973;andBaldwin1989 and2002. Fora discussion critique and of see power-centered analysis, Vasquez 1998;andGuzzini1993and 1998.
37. Baldwin 2002, 178-79.
38. See Keck and Sikkink 1998; and Risse et al. 1999. 39. Barnett 1998.
40. Johnstone 2003.
41. Barnett and Finnemore 2004.
ganda power, correspondingrespectively to the threatenedor actual deployment of violence, nonviolent sanctions, and normativepressure.42 These distinctions do refine one's understandingof how compulsory power works, but from the usefully perspective of our taxonomy these are refinementsof a specific concept of power, compulsory power, and not distinct concepts, per se.
InstitutionalPower: Actors' Control Over Socially Distant Others Whereas compulsory power entails the direct control of one actor of the conditions and actions of another,institutionalpower is actors' control of others in indirect ways. Specifically, the conceptual focus here is on the formal and informal institutions that mediate between A and B, as A, working through the rules and proceduresthat define those institutions, guides, steers, and constrainsthe actions (or nonactions) and conditions of existence of others.43 Thus compulsory and institutionalpower differ in the following ways. To begin, whereas compulsory power typically rests on the resources that are deployed by A to exercise power directlyover B, A cannotnecessarilybe said to "possess"the institution that constrains and shapes B. It is certainly possible that a dominant actor maintainstotal control over an institution,which, in turn,lords over other actors. If so, then it is arguablybest to conceptualizethe institutionas possessed by the actor, that is, as an instrumentof compulsorypower. But rareis the institutionthatis completely dominatedby one actor. Instead, it is much more likely that an institution has some independencefrom specific resource-laden This providesthe prinactors.44 cipal analytical grounds for making the move to the institutionalcontext. Second, the recognition of the importance of institutional arrangementshighlights that A and B are socially removed from-only indirectly related to-one another.This distance can be spatial or temporal. Spatially,A's actions affect the behavior or conditions of others only throughinstitutional arrangements(such as decisional rules, formalized lines of responsibility, divisions of labor, and structures of dispersed dependence);power is no longer a matterof A's direct effect on B, but works instead throughsocially extended, institutionallydiffuse relations. In other words, A does not "possess"the resources of power, but because A stands in a particularrelation to the relevant institutionalarrangements,its actions exercise
42. Carr1964. 43. We cautionagainsttwo possible,but inapt,connotations institutional of power:the powerof counBank'spoweroverborrowing institutions actorsin theirown right(forexample, World as the of the in socialsubjects example, institution sovtries);andthe effectof institutions constituting (for as is affectstheconstitution statesubjects). former bestunderstood compulsory of The ereignty power
and the latter as either structuralor productive power. Institutionalpower, in other words, does not
actors includeanyandall aspects powerby,in, andthrough it of institutions. Instead, is preconstituted overothersindirectly control institutions. exercising through 44. See Abbott Snidal1999;andBarnett Finnemore and 2004. and
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power over B. Temporally,institutions established at one point in time can have ongoing and unintendedeffects at a later point. Long-standing institutions represent frozen configurationsof privilege and bias that can continueto shape the future choices of actors. Third, analyses of institutional power necessarily consider the decisions that were not made (the proverbial dogs that do not bark) because of institutional arrangementsthat limit some opportunitiesand bias directions, particularly of collective action.45 Institutional arrangementscan shape the agendasetting process in ways that eliminate those very issues that are points of conflict. International relations scholars have developed a range of argumentsthat examine how formal and informal institutions enable some actors to shape the behavior or circumstancesof socially distant others. The literatureon formal and informal agenda setting focuses on who sets the agenda and how that agenda omits certain possibilities.46Also of relevance is the literaturethat highlights traditionalnotions of dependence;that is, how materialprocesses limit the choices available to dependent actors. Hirschman,for example, famously arguedthat marketforces can create dependent relationships that limit the weaker actor's choices.47Along similar lines, Keohane and Nye considered how enduring systems of exchange and interdependence can be media of power.48 Also prominent here are neoliberal institutional approaches that focus on the behavioral constraintsand governing biases of institutions.The general concern is with durablesolutions to games of interdependent choice and how institutionshelp to solve coordination and cooperation dilemmas. Yet the institutional rules that establish a particularfocal point also serve to generate unequal leverage in determining collective outcomes. In short, the institutions that are established to help actors achieve mutually acceptable, even Pareto-superior,outcomes also create "winners" and "losers," to the extent that the ability to use the institution and, accordingly, collective rewards-material and normative-are unevenly distributed long into the future and beyond the intentions of the creators.49 Indeed, many scholars examining how internationalinstitutions look from the vantage point of the weak tend to stress those very features.50 StructuralPower: Direct and Mutual Constitution of the Capacities of Actors Structuralpower concerns the structures-or, more precisely, the co-constitutive, internal relations of structuralpositions-that define what kinds of social beings
45. Bachrach Baratz1962 and 1963. Compulsory and For power,too, can entail"nondecision." in the of medications populations to certain example, failingeven to consider possibility distributing direneedof themcanbe a formof directcontrol A overB. of
46. See Mansbach and Vasquez 1981; Krasner 1985; and Pollack 2003. 47. Hirschman 1945. Aspects of Hirschman's argument, of course, emphasize direct relations of
dependence between two countries, and hence, compulsory power.
48. Keohane and Nye 1977. See also Baldwin 1980; and Caporaso 1978. 49. See Krasner 1991; Gruber2000; Goldstein 1989; and Garrettand Tsebelis 1999.
50. See Murphy 1984; and Ayoob 1995, chap. 7.
actors are. It produces the very social capacities of structural,or subject, positions in direct relation to one another, and the associated interests, that underlie and dispose action. This makes this type of power quite different from institutional power. Whereas institutional power focuses on differential constraints on action, structural power concerns the determinationof social capacities and interests.This of importantdifferenceowes chiefly to theirdifferenttheoreticunderstandings structure. Scholars focusing on institutionalpower usually define institutionsand structure in almost interchangeableterms, as sets of rules, procedures,and norms that constrain the action of already-constitutedactors with fixed preferences. Scholars focusing on structuralpower conceive structureas an internal relation-that is, a direct constitutive relation such that the structuralposition, A, exists only by virtue of its relationto structural position, B. 51 The classic examples here are masterslave and capital-laborrelations. From this perspective, the kinds of social beings that are mutually constituted are directly or internally related; that is, the social relational capacities, subjectivities, and interests of actors are directly shaped by the social positions that they occupy. Structuralpower shapes the fates and conditions of existence of actors in two critical ways. One, structuralpositions do not necessarily generate equal social privileges; instead structuresallocate differential capacities, and typically differential advantages, to different positions. Capital-laborand master-slave relations are obvious examples of how social structuresconstitute unequal social privileges and capacities.Two, the social structurenot only constitutesactorsand their capacities, it also shapes their self-understandingand subjective interests. The consethat quence is thatstructures distributeasymmetricprivileges also affect the interests of actors, often leaving them willing to "accept their role in the existing order of things."52 In other words, structuralpower can work to constrain some actors from recognizing their own domination. To the degree that it does, actors' selfunderstandingsand dispositions for action serve to reproduce,ratherthan to resist, the differential capacities and privileges of structure.As Steven Lukes observed: "is it not the supreme and most insidious exercise of power to prevent people, to whatever degree, from having grievances shaping their perceptions, cognitions, and preferences in such a way that they accept their role in the existing order of things?"53 In this way, structural power operates even when there are no instances of A acting to exercise control over B.54 that Variousinternational relationsscholarsforwardarguments have strongshades of structuralpower. Most obviously, Marxist-influencedscholars gravitatetoward
51. See Bhaskar 1979; and Isaac 1987. ,52. Lukes 1975, 24. 53. Ibid. It is possible to construct a compulsory power answer to this question. For instance, A might act to alter the beliefs of B, thereby making it easier to control B, as it is always easier to maintain a social order throughconsent than throughcoercion. Baldwin 2002, 179, gives the example of brainwashing.Related is Hurrelland Woods's 1995 concept of coercive socialization and Ikenberry and Kupchan's 1990 notion of hegemonic power. 54. This approachrelates to the distinction between objective and subjective interests. See Benton 1981.
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this concept.55Explicitly following Lukes and Gramsci, Gill and Law argue that while power exists in coercion and institutional arrangements,to understandthe workings of the global capitalist economy requires recognition of global production relations as constitutive structure.56 For them, as well as other Gramscians and historical materialists, the structureof global capitalism substantially determines the capacities and resources of actors."5 also shapes their ideology-that It their interestsand desires. is, the interpretivesystem throughwhich they understand This ideology, according to scholars like Gill and Law, is hegemonic in that it serves the objective interests of the capitalists and their fellow travelers at the direct expense of the objective (but not, then, recognized) interests of the world's producing classes, thereby disposing action toward the reproduction,rather than the substantialtransformation,of the structureand its relations of domination. In the same spirit, Cox draws on Machiavelli's notion of power as a centaur:it operates overtly to the extent that one actor will manipulate strategic constraints for the purposes of controllingthe actions of actors (the beast of compulsoryand institutional power), and it operates covertly to the extent that it generates the social powers, values, and interpretationsof reality that deeply structureinternal control (the man that is structuralpower).58World-systems theorists also draw on this conception of power to the extent that they argue that: structuresof production generate particularkinds of states identified as core, semiperiphery,and periphery; the positions in the world-system generate commensurate sets of identities and interests; and those in the subordinatepositions adopt (ideologically generated) conceptions of interest that support their own domination and their lesser position in that world-system.59 Because many constructivists draw from structurallyoriented theories of sociology, they also are sometimes attentive to structuralpower. Wendt, for instance, argues that "a key aspect of any cultural form is its role structure,the configuration of subject positions that shared ideas make available to its holders."'60 He to note that the role structurescan contain functional differentiationand proceeds thus generatedifferentialprivileges and capacities to the occupantsof these roles.61 Although constructivistswho draw from sociological institutionalismdo not usually adopt a notion of structureas a set of internal relations, they make a related conceptual move, suggesting a hint of structuralpower, to the extent that rules, which often are associated with and can generate roles, produce the identities and interests of actors.62This tendency is especially evident among those associated
55. Marxists not alonein emphasizing are 2001 focuseson the global structural power.Bourdieu of domination the of 1989develimportance masculine through structure patriarchy. Strange produced
oped a non-Marxianapproachto what she calls structuralpower.
56. Gill andLaw 1989.
57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62.
Rupert and Smith 2002. Cox 1992. Wallerstein 1996. Wendt 1999, 257. Also see Wendt and Duvall 1989. Finnemore 1996.
with the world polity school. Boli and Thomas, for instance, argue that there is a world authoritystructure,a set of fundamentalprinciples, that constitutes who are the actors of world politics, what are their identities, what are their expressive purposes, and what are their differential capacities. Consequently,they argue that the institutionalization of a world authority structure that is organized around rational-legalvalues increasingly privileges the voices of internationalnongovernmental organizations.63
Productive Power: Production of Subjects ThroughDiffuse Social Relations Productive power and structural power overlap in several important respects. Both are attentive to constitutive social processes that are, themselves, not controlled by specific actors, but that are effected only through the meaningful practices of actors. Both concern how the social capacities of actors are socially produced, and how these processes shape actors' self-understandings and perceived interests. Additionally, neither concept of power depends on the existence of expressed conflict (althoughresistance is at the heart of the dynamics of change of them). Yet structuraland productive power differ in a critical respect: whereas the former works through direct structuralrelations, the latter entails more generalized and diffuse social processes. Specifically, and at the risk of gross simplification, structuralpower is structuralconstitution, that is, the productionand reproduction of internallyrelatedpositions of super-and subordination, domination,thatactors or occupy. Productive power, by contrast, is the constitution of all social subjects with various social powers through systems of knowledge and discursive practices of broadand general social scope. Conceptually,the move is away from structures, per se, to systems of signification and meaning (which are structured,but not themselves structures),and to networks of social forces perpetually shaping one another. In that respect, attention to productive power looks beyond (or is post-) structures. This difference between direct and diffuse social relations of constitution has two importantimplications for thinking about productive power. First, productive power concerns discourse, the social processes and the systems of knowledge through which meaning is produced, fixed, lived, experienced, and transformed.64 Discourses are understoodhere not as dialogues among specific actors or in terms of Habermasiannotions of communicative action. Instead, the concept refers to how "microfields"or the quotidian "definethe (im)possible, the (im)probable,the natural,the normal, what counts as a problem."65 In this way, discourses are sites
63. Boli andThomas1999. 64. Macdonell 1986. 65. Hayward 2000, 35.
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of social relations of power because they situate ordinary practices of life and define the social fields of action that are imaginable and possible.66 Second, discursive processes and practices produce social identities and capacities as they give meaning to them. In Foucault's archetypicalformulation,humans are not only power's intended targets, but also its effects.67Discourse, therefore, is socially productive for all subjects, constituting the subjectivity of all social beings of diverse kinds with their contingent, though not entirely fluid, identities, practices, rights, responsibilities, and social capacities.68Productive power, therefore, differs from structuralpower in its approachto subjectivity. Because structural power concerns the co-constitution of subjects, it typically envisions hierarchicaland binaryrelations of dominationthat work to the advantageof those structurallyempowered, to the disadvantageof the socially weak. In contrast,productive power concerns the boundariesof all social identity, and the capacity and inclination for action for the socially advantagedand disadvantagedalike, as well as the myriad social subjects that are not constituted in binary hierarchicalrelationships.69Productive power, in this way, refuses to assume that some essence is at the root of human subjectivity,[and raises] the possibility that every ordering of social relations, and every ordering of social selves (every inter- and intrasubjectivepower relation) bears some cost in the form of violence it does to "what it might be 'in the self and in the social world.' "70 In general, the bases and workings of productive power are the socially existing and, hence, historically contingent and changing understandings, meanings, norms, customs, and social identities that make possible, limit, and are drawn on for
action.71
Some of the best examples of the analysis of productivepower in international relations refer to the discursive productionof the subjects, the fixing of meanings, and the terms of action, of world politics. One question concerns the kinds of subjects that are produced. Basic categories of classification, like "civilized," "rogue," "European,""unstable,""Western,"and "democratic"states, are representative of productive power, as they generate asymmetries of social capacities.72 Even categories such as "weapons of mass destruction" can evolve in unexpected ways and stabilize meanings that constrain policy.73A related theme is how the "other"comes to be defined and how that definition is associated with
66. See Foucault 1984 and 1983. 67. Foucault 1971, 170. 68. Butler 1999. 69. For a range of statements that address these differences, see Ball 1992; Barnes 1988; Benton 1981; Wartenberg1992; and Isaac 1987. 70. Hayward 2000, 6 (emphasis in the original). 71. Ibid., 30. 72. See Doty 1996; and Inayatullahand Blaney 2003. 73. See Litwak 2002; and The New Republic, 7 October 2002, 22.
the practices and policies that are possible, imaginable, permissible, and desirable.74Also, socially contested efforts to set and fix meanings can be expressive A of productivepower.75 particulardiscourse of development orients action in one direction and away from others.76 The genderedcategories of "civilian"and "comlaw have real consequences for those on the batant"in internationalhumanitarian some while putting others at the risk of death.77Thus to attend ground, protecting to the analysis of productive power is to focus on how diffuse and contingent social processes produceparticularkinds of subjects, fix meanings and categories, and create what is taken for granted and the ordinaryof world politics.
Governance and Empire

The four concepts of power offer distinctive views about how actors' abilities to shape and set the conditions of their existence and action are affected and effected in international relations.Although each concept offers importantinsights into how power operates, a full accounting of power requiresa considerationof its multiple forms operatingin relationto each other.Our taxonomy does more thanalert scholars to the different forms of power, though, for it also encourages a consideration of their conjunction. To demonstrate the value of our taxonomy for seeing the distinctive forms and the linkages between them, we consider two major issues in global politics-global governance, and American empire. Global Governance Scholars of global governance often define it as the institutionalized coordination or collaboration of people's and states' activities in ways that achieve more desirable-positive sum-outcomes.78 Because of this tendency to tie global governance to institutionalizedcooperation, coordinationof convergent interests, and the productionof collective goods, many scholars diminish or overlook the role of power.79 Yet governance is part of a family of concepts, including control, guidance, and steering, which are also elements of the family of "power"concepts. Therefore, the scholarly tendency to slight how power operates in global governance is conceptuallyand theoreticallyproblematic.Power is centralto global governance, and our taxonomy highlights the multiple and interconnected ways in which it operates.
74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 1996, 79.
See Campbell 1992; and Neumann and Welsh 1991. See Williams 1996; and Neumann 1999. See Ferguson 1994; and Sen 1999. See Carpenter2003; and Kinsella 2003. See Commission on Global Governance 1995, 2; Young 1994, 53; and Gordenekerand Weiss 17. This argumentis developed in Hurrell 2005.
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Internationalinstitutions, formal and informal, are often understoodto be at the heart of global governance. Relations of cooperation and coordination, practices of internationallaw, and the processes of collective action that they entail, are effected in and throughinstitutions.Institutionalpower thus provides a reasonable conceptual starting point for examining power in global governance, and shapes global governance in at least three ways. First, any concern with global governance must consider what issues are of concern and which issues are not. For decades after World War II, issues of human rights, women's rights, and children's rights never made it on the UN agenda and thus were never discussed or even deemed worthy of "governance."That is no longer the case.80 Today, issues of collective responsibility for adequate employment or a livable wage for all people are institutionallyexcluded. One major goal of proponents of the new internationaleconomic order (NIEO) was to transform the issues that were debatedand regulatedin the global economy.81 Agendas enable some actors to further their interests and ideals, to exercise control over others, and to limit the abilities of actors to engage in effective collective action. Second, a considerationof institutionalpower also exposes the governing biases of institutions. As we noted in the conceptual discussion above, the institutional rules that establish a particularfocal point also serve to generateunequal leverage or influence in determining collective outcomes.82In short, the institutions that are established to help actors achieve pareto-superioroutcomes also create "winners" and "losers,"to the extent that the ability to use the institution and, accordingly, collective rewards are unevenly distributed.83This institutional context, moreover, lingers into the future, thus constraining action in ways that might not have been intended but nevertheless limit choice and shape action.84This is precriticism of a numberof formal orgacisely the point of considerablecontemporary nizations involved in governing the global economy, such as the World Trade Organization(WTO) and the InternationalMonetaryFund (IMF).85Recent analyses of the internationalrefugee regime also have noted how legal and normative changes have potentially come at the expense of refugees.86 Third, also consistent with the biases of institutions is the ability of great powers to establish internationalinstitutions and arrangementsto further or preserve theirinterestsand positions of advantageinto the future,even as they do not directly or fully control those future arrangements.Gruber's concept and application of "go-it-alone"power suggests how strong states undertakea course of action that subsequently shapes future outcomes for others, and that weak states go along
1998. and 80. See Joachim Friedman, Hochstetler 2003;andClark, 1985. 81. See Murphy 1984;andKrasner
82. 83. 84. 85. 86. Knight 1992, 131-36. See Krasner 1991; and Gruber2000. Goldstein 1989. See Kapstein 1999; and Shaffer 2005. Loescher 2001.
with an agreementthat may actually leave them worse off, because to oppose the inevitable will only cost them more in the long run.87 In short, for Gruber,weaker states are damned if they do and doubly damned if they do not. Significantly,it is less important that the outcome is willfully intended than that it is an effect of asymmetrical ability to shape the context of choice or decision. Strange argued that while American power as defined by material resources might be in decline (at the time of her writing), the United States is the epicenter of a transnational empire that gives it the ability to shape security, financial,productive, and knowledge structures,which, in turn, operate to U.S. advantage and foreclose opportunities to other countries.88Ikenberry has argued that liberal great powers have attemptedto use their positions of power after war to establish internationalgovernance mechanisms that simultaneously preserve and diffuse their power.89In sum, the institutional core of global governance, while seemingly resting on the productionof joint gains throughcooperationor coordination,also entails the substantial operationof institutionalpower. But institutional power, alone, does not tell the whole story. The example of great powers attemptingto shape institutions suggests more traditionalsenses of "power struggles,"which directs attentionto compulsory power. Here, most obviously, the concern is with how states, and largely the great powers, are able to determine the content and direction of global governance by using their decisive materialadvantagesnot only to determinewhat areas are to be governed, but also to directly "coordinate"the actions of lesser powers so that they align with their interests.90Otherexamples of this form of power include the U.S. efforts to determine the terms of the InternationalCriminalCourt by manipulatingincentives for particulartargeted states, and the special relationship established between European states and some of their former colonies with respect to internationaltrade regime provisions. States, though, are not the only actors that have the ability to set and enforce the rules of global governance in ways that directly control the actions of others. Internationalorganizations sometimes do too, as they can be not only sites of institutional power through which other actors indirectly exercise control but also can exhibit compulsory power.91The WorldBank's considerablepotential for compulsory power vis-a-vis borrowing states with respect to "development policy" is illustrative. The UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) can shape the life chances of refugees and other displaced peoples.92It is partly because of the recognition of the concentration of such resources for compulsory power in internationalorganizationsthat many scholars and policymakersarguefor a decon-
87. Gruber 2000. 88. Strange 1989.

89. 90. 91. 92. Ikenberry2001. Gilpin 2002. Barnett and Finnemore 2004. Harrell-Bond2002.
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centrationof decisional authority,a substantialdemocratizationof the institutions of global governance, or mechanisms of accountability.93 Even some materiallychallenged actors are able to exercise compulsory power in global governance processes. Transnationalactivists, civil society organizations, and international nongovernmental organizations have demonstrated the ability to use rhetoricaland symbolic tools, as well as shamingtactics, to get states, multinationalcorporations,and others to comply with the values and norms that they advance.94Various transnationalactivists successfully used symbolic means to press the Clinton administrationto sign the landmine treaty.95 Activists have formed associations and deployed branding and certification techniques to try to use consumer power to compel producers to comply with labor, environmental, and human rights standards.96 Analysis of global governance needs to be attentive not only to the interactions of actors but also to the constitutive reproductionof the subjects of global social life. Gramsciansand historical materialistshave examined how global institutions help to stabilize and spread global governance that has a markedly liberal and capitalist character.97 Also prominenthere are studies that examine the mutually constitutedstructural relations of capital and labor-and of core and periphery-in activities of materialproduction,and how these structuresgenerate a global global distribution of material well-being and organize the mechanisms that facilitate, The actual workings of global reproduce, regulate, and guard that distribution.98 governance, in this view, are reflective of the underlying global class structure, and the ideologies of global governance help to reproducethat structureby fostering a worldview among the exploited classes that either there is no alternativeor the currentsocial order is desirable.99 The concept of productive power as applied to global governance highlights how the discourses and institutions of internationalrelations contingently produce particularkinds of actors with associated social powers, self-understandings,and performativepractices. Consider the Global Compact, which "engages the private sector to work with the UN, in partnershipwith internationallabor and nongovernmentalorganizations (NGOs), to identify, disseminate, and promote good corporate practices based on nine universal principles"that are found in various UN documents.100Because this ambitious agenda is undertakenby a slimly funded and staffed unit attached to the secretariat-general'soffice, it is not an obvious place to look for evidence of power, even if the goal is to alter corporatepractices.
93. See Stiglitz2002;Dahl2003;Keohane Nye 2003;andWellens 2002. and
94. Keck Sikkink and 1998. 95. Price 1998.
96. 97. 98. 99. 100.
Broad 2002. See Murphy 1994; Cox 1992; Latham 1999; and Rupert and Smith 2002. Wallerstein 1998. Rupert 2000. Ruggie 2001, 371-72.
Yet the architects of the Global Compact imagine two distinctive mechanisms that might foster this development, and these mechanisms are expressions of productive power. One, as multinational corporations sign onto a set of (evolving) standardsand practices, a discursive space is opened in which various actors are produced as subjects empowered legitimately to comment on their performance. Those actors are thereby given social resources that enable them effectively to exercise the compulsorypower of shamingcorporationsinto changing their behavior. Additionally, the discourse of the Global Compact also aspires to create a new kind of actor-the potentially "socially responsiblecorporation"-that may adhere to these best practices not because of the manipulation of incentives, but rather because of a new self-understanding.101 other words, the discourse is intended In to produce a new "social kind" that will be self-regulating and self-disciplining. The production of this new social kind is hypothesized to occur through various mechanisms.To begin, they are expected to translatepertinentUN principles,which are legitimated by the internationalcommunity and draw from broaderdiscourses of liberalism, into lessons learned that can be transformedinto best practices. To encourage this process, the Global Compact has created a learning network that, of ultimately, is "intendedto stimulate the internationalization UN principles into companies' corporatecultures."102 This lengthy process will depend on the willingness of corporations to adopt new texts, business models, and practices that ultimately become internalized and identified with the performance of this new social identity, the socially responsible corporation.The Global Compact, therefore, illuminates the workings of, and connections between, different forms of power: compulsorypower because of the ability of nonstateactors to deploy shaming techniques to alter corporatepractices; institutionalpower because of the role of the UN in establishing new rules that can constrain the behavior of corporations; and productive power because of the attemptto help produce a new social kind of corporateactor. The productive power of the Global Compact discourse, although importantin its own right, is merely illustrative of the broad significance of productive power in global governance. Indeed, all practices of guiding and steering collective outcomes in global social life, with the possible and partial exception of instances of compulsory power effected through relations of raw coercive force and violence, derive from discourses that are productive of the social identities of the actors engaged in them. The human rights regime, for example, is an expression of a discursively constituted world populated by subjects normalized as human rights victims, humanrights monitors,humanrights violators, and humanrights prosecutors. To analyze global governance processes adequately,then, it is necessary to address systematically the workings of productive power in setting the conditions of meaningful collective action.
101. Ruggie 2002. 102. Ibid.
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Understandingthe operation of power in multiple forms makes it much more difficult to approachglobal governance purely in terms of cooperation, coordination, consensus, and normative progress. Governance is also a matterof compulsion, institutionalbias, privilege, and unequalconstraintson action. Although these different concepts of power illuminate different ways in which power operates in global governance, there is an importantdifference between the first two and the last two that affects how we think about governance: the first two concern who governs in global governance, whereas the latter two concern not who governs, but instead how the governing capacities of actors are produced,how those capacities shape governance processes and outcomes, and how bodies of knowledge create subjects that are to be, at least in part, self-regulating and disciplined.103 Our taxonomy does more than simply illuminate the different ways power operates in global governance, for it also encourages scholars to identify connections between these forms.
American Empire
If scholars of global governance have tended to underestimatethe role of power in any of its forms, there is no such danger regarding the contemporarydebate about the existence, nature, and consequences of U.S. empire. The U.S. response to the terroristattacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy, and the U.S. occupation of Iraq have caused scholars and pundits to debate whether the United States is an empire.104 Their evaluations frequently turn on sometimes loose, but certainly varied, usages of the concept. We do not intend to provide the definitive concept of empire and then use that concept to determinewhether or not the label applies to the United States. Instead, our modest goal is to demonstratethat any systematic discussion of empire must consider power in multiple forms. Much of the debate over the existence and nature of American empire pivots off of what we have called compulsory power. It could hardly be otherwise. A fundamentalissue, after all, is the U.S.'s ability and willingness to use its overwhelming concentrationof resources to shape directly the actions of others. For many observers, the decision to designate the United States as an empire rests on its apparent quest to use coercion and intimidationif and when necessaryto develop and sustain its supremacy over other regions and states. The emphasis on direct control over others certainly correspondsto the concept of compulsory power, but our concept does raise questionsregardingwhetherthe designationof empireshould be dependent on intentions and brass-knuckletactics.
103. Brass 2000, 316. 104. The generic concern is with the informal or formal hierarchical arrangements that maintain the domination of one actor over others. See Shaw 2002, 331-32, and Doyle 1986 for a general discussion, and Rosen 2003 for application of the concept to the contemporary United States.
Much of the recent discussion over the United States as an empire revolves aroundits intentions.After all, althoughthe U.S. global shareof materialresources has not changed significantly duringthe past decade, what has changed, according to many, is the Bush administration'sdeterminationto use its unrivaledposition to strong-armothers and to scare away possible challengers. This is one reason why much is made of the Bush administration's2002 National Security Strategy; it appearsto announce loudly and boldly its goal of maintainingan empire in form if not in name. But, should intentionality be the metric for determiningthe existence of empire?As we have shown, compulsory power does not hinge on intentionality; it still operates even when those who directly dominate others are not conscious of how their actions are producing unintended effects. A state that has no intention of creating or maintainingan empire, per se, might nevertheless exercise directly controlling effects that are nearly identical to those who do. To the extent that compulsory power is the key, then, evidence of empire may best be found not in the intentionsof the subjectbut instead in the consequences as viewed from the objects of the empire. The concept of compulsory power also questions whether the reliance on coercive means is necessary for the designation of empire. Compulsory power concerns the direct control of others, but admits for a range of technologies that allow A to control the behavior and circumstancesof B. Consequently,althoughempires use military means, they also can be expected to use less coercive tactics. Doing so might not make them any less of an empire, a point emphasized by Carrin his discussion of the colonial empires.'05 The relevance of thinking about noncoercive mechanisms is quite germane to the tendency, among some scholars, to highlight the perceived willingness of the Bush administrationto forgo multilateral means in favor of unilateral instrumentsas evidence of the bid for empire.106 In other words, for such analysts it is the shift from a grandstrategyrevolving around institutional power to one founded primarilyon compulsory power that best signals the new status of the United States as empire. of The backdropto this argumentis an interpretation what accounts for the lonof American hegemony after WorldWar II and how it differed from previgevity ous hegemonies, including the colonial empires it supplanted.The genius of the post-World War II "wise men," in this way, was to recognize that global rule through coercion was unsustainable,and that it was preferableto establish global institutions that could furtherAmerican interests and spreadAmerican values.107 What generated consent for American hegemony was not only agreement over the purpose of American power, but also the construction of multilateralinstitutions that were conferred legitimacy, constrainedAmerican power, and democratized the decision-making process. Because these global institutions had some
105. Carr 1964. 106. See Nye 2003; Ikenberry2002; and Kupchan2002. 107. Ikenberry2001.
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autonomy from the United States and were partly controlled by other states, the United States could not be said to possess them, even though they reflectedAmerican interests. What separatesAmerican hegemony from American empire in this view, therefore, is the willingness to work jointly with others throughmultilateral institutions and the consent that is attendedto them.'08The Bush administration's decision to shift the weight of American foreign policy from multilateralto unilateralmechanismsprovides partialcause for observersto relabel the United States an imperial power. But it is importantto recognize how Americanhegemony,even when runthrough global institutions, still representedan exercise of institutionalpower. The absence of overt conflict does not mean the absence of power; institutions can mobilize bias to serve U.S. purposes and eliminate points of potential opposition to serve U.S. concerns. Moreover, global institutions created an asymmetricaldistribution of benefits, and the United States has been a prime beneficiary.It is partly for this reason that Bacevich claims that the nature of the American empire since World War II has revolved around global institutions that create "open spaces" that the United States can dominate.109 Finally, and most importantly,the United States still exercises power, but now it is indirect and mediated throughinstitutions.Any consideration of the American empire, in short, must be attentive to institutional power. In this respect, perhapsat stake is not whetherthe United States is or is not an empire, but rather whether the longevity of that empire is dependent on the willingness to eschew unilateralmeans of controlfor indirectinstitutionalmeans-a point that echoes earlier debates over the natureof informal empires."11 Yet to what extent should the debate about the American empire focus exclusively on the specificity of the United States as an actor?Compulsoryand institutional power directs attentionto empire as an extension of a centralized,territorial state that maintains control over others, and thus focuses on the policies of the United States in general and the Bush administrationin particular.Structuraland productive power, however, shift the focus away from particularactors that control, directly or indirectly, others to social relations of constitution. In doing so, it directs attention to the underlying social relations that make possible an assumption of imperial power, give meaning to U.S. foreign policy practices, and imagine empire as having a decentralized,even deterritorialized,form. To consider structuralpower in debating the existence or implications of U.S. constitutionof the United empiremeans, first and foremost, exploring the structural States as imperial center.This has three interconnectedaspects. First, the structure of social relations of material production are transnationaland create functional and spatial differentiationbetween a world-economic core and periphery.Along these lines, scholars influenced by Marxism and world-system theory generally
108. Mehta2003, 51-52.

109. Bacevich 2002. 110. Mommsen 1986.
situate their discussions of U.S. foreign policy in the context of how global capitalism generates a particularset of social positions and practices for the United States in direct relationshipto the structurallydisadvantaged.111 Such a consideration frequently includes a claim that a partially deterritorializedglobal capitalism constitutes the United States as a capitalist state that is bound up with the authoritativerule of and for global capital."2 This leads to a second observation: because capitalismis global and deterritorialized, too, is global rule.113 so, Although the United States might play an importantrole in regulating the world economy, opening up new territories, and ensuring that rogue countries are disciplined, it works with other states and nonstate actors to maintain and expand global capitalism.'14 Third, the regulation of the world economy is accomplished through a mixture of coercion and consent. The United States has demonstrateda willingness to use its military power to maintainglobal economic (and associated sociopolitical) stability. It also has worked hard to generate consent-that is, to get those who are structurallydisadvantagedbecause of their position in the world political economy to accept the order of things. Accordingly, entering into the debate on U.S. empire through the lens of structuralpower leads one to a focus on the structuralconstitution of the conditions of possibility for the Bush administration's policies in relationship to the material, political, and ideological contradictions of capitalism."5 Can the social relations of constitution that generate empire be understood in the more diffuse terms of productive power? A most influential,recent, attemptis Hardtand Negri's definition of "empire,"which has been the subject of much critical attention. Their argumentis that transformativediscursive and material processes have produced "empire":a "decenteredand deterritorializingapparatusof rule that progressivelyincorporatesthe entireglobal realm within its open, expanding, frontiers."116 What has producedthis new form of global rule? Although they join others in identifying the expansion of global capital, they also locate an important role for the development of Western-backedinstitutions that maintain more consensual and participatorydecision-making practices, new discourses such as human rights, equality, and democracy, and counterhegemonic struggles by labor and others that reflect the desire for "liberation"from the "modernmachines of power."117 Empire, as they conceive it, is not a system in which tribute, power, and resources flow from the outlying regions to a great metropolitancenter, but instead consists of more diffuse networks of hierarchythat generate privilege for some and pacify the multitudes.
111. See Gowan2003;andWallerstein 2003.

112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. Aronowitz and Bratsis 2002. 1 See Robinson 2001; and Glassma 1999. Panitch and Gindin 2003. Anderson 2002. For an earlier analysis, see Augelli and Murphy 1988. Hardtand Negri 2000, xi-xiii. Ibid., 43.
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How does this deterritorializedempire constitute the United States? Broadly, social discourses might be viewed as productive of the specific subjectivity of the United States in relationship to imperial subjects. Some circles, for example, exhibit a growing romantic nostalgia for empire.'18It is not uncommon to hear the United States being urged to accept the responsibilities and burdensof empire in helping to bring progress to others.119 This role is to be performed not only by the United States. A multiplicity of actors and processes are partially responsible for attempting to bring progress, development, human rights, and the rule of law-in short, civilization-to the non-Westernworld. Along these lines, Judis observed that while there was the formal dismantling of the colonial empires that once played a civilizing mission that stabilized the internationalorder, that role He is now shoulderedby internationalorganizations.'20 proceeded to recommend that the United States continue to use internationalorganizationsto perform this civilizing mission, anticipating that they will be better able to bring into being new kinds of actors in world politics. Productive power, in this way, works to produce a particularidentity for the United States-a responsible and beneficent imperial actor in relation to others (imperial subjects, themselves irresponsible and in need of such help). In general, any discussion of American empire should be attentive to all forms of power. Certainly there is compulsory power, which is the focus of much of the debate. Yet also present is institutional power and how the United States might indirectly control the behavior of others through global institutions. These first two approaches share, therefore, a concern with how the United States is able to sustain dominance in internationalaffairs in ways that control, directly and indiof rectly, the foreign policies and even domestic political arrangements other states. It is possible and desirable, though, to see the American empire as constituted by global social relations. Making this move requires a willingness to see the United States at the imperial center, structurallyconstituted and discursively produced through a complex of imperial relations that are not themselves fully under the control of the U.S. state as actor. To fully appreciatehow power is embedded in empire, though, requiresa willingness to see not only the differentforms of power, but also how they combine in different ways to create structuredand enduring hierarchiesof control and advantage.
Conclusion
Power is a complex and contested concept, in large part because there are important but distinctive ways to understandhow social relations shape the fates and
118. See Ferguson 2003; Mallaby 2002; and Kagan 2003.

119. USA Today, 6 May 2003, A15. 120. New Republic, 9 June 2003, 19-23.
relations scholarshave erredin theirpast attempts choices of actors.If international to understandpower, it is by trying to identify and rely on a single conception. But no single concept can capture the forms of power in internationalpolitics. In orderto better enable scholars to see the conceptual variety, we constructeda taxonomy that systematically identifies the different forms of power. We use that taxonomy to encourage scholars not to treat these conceptual forms as competing or vying for recognition as the importantoperationof power in a particularsituation. Instead, we urge scholars to see how the multiple concepts capture the different and interrelatedways in which actors are enabled and constrainedin determining their circumstances. The inevitable question, then, is how exactly should we think about the relationship between these forms of power? During the past few years, there have been several importantstatementsregardinghow scholars should conceptualizethe relationship between different substantive theories of internationalrelations, such as neoliberalism and realism, and different social theories, such as constructivism and rationalism.121 Jupille, Caporaso, and Checkel suggest several possibilities: incommensurability;competitive testing; sequencing; incorporation(or subsumption); and some type of addition.122 With respect to analysis of power, we reject the first four in favor of the last. One line of argumentis that because these differentconceptualizationsof power derive, in importantways, from different social theoretic commitments, they are incommensurable.Because the theoretic foundations are in tension, the best that can be gotten among concepts of power is some form of conceptual pluralism.We certainly do not believe that a "master"theory of power is possible. But there is no social theoretic reason why scholars should not look for areas of connection. We also reject a gladiatorialcompetition between these conceptions; after all, they capturethe different ways in which social relations shape and limit actors' ability to determine their fates. To permanentlyreject one in favor of another,therefore, would be to risk overlooking a fundamentaldimension of power (and therefore returndiscussions of power to a state of conceptual myopia). We also reject subsumptionarguments,on the groundsthat they presupposethat there is a foundationalelement of power that is generative of the other forms. We see ways in which compulsory power shapes productive power, and vice-versa; how institutional power shapes compulsory power, and vice-versa; how institutional power shapes structuralpower, and vice-versa, and on and on. So, there is no most basic form. On the same grounds,we reject the idea of sequencingbecause we see no reason to presume that one form of power necessarily and always precedes another.To the contrary,in most social contexts all are operating simultaneously, intersecting with and reflecting off of each other.
121. See, respectively, Baldwin 1993; Fearon and Wendt 2002; Katzenstein, Keohane, and Krasner 1999; and Tierney and Weaver 2003.
122. Jupille, Caporaso, and Checkel 2003.
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Because the taxonomy was designed to encourage scholars to see the different forms of power in internationalpolitics and the connections between them, we strongly encourage scholars to imagine how different forms interact to sharpen empirical analysis. Different forms of power have different domains of application to the extent that they illuminatedifferentways in which social relationsaffect and effect the ability of actors to control their fates.123But, as we illustratively suggested in the discussions of global governance and American empire, these different conceptualizationsare not only distinct, but also intertwined. Although Carris routinely considered to be the individual most responsible for establishing the focal conceptualizationof power and associating that conceptualization with realism, in our view his work in fact suggests what we are advocatAs ing.124 expected from someone deeply influenced by Mannheim and Marx, his TwentyYears'Crisis and his analysis of internationalorder exhibit a far-reaching understandingof what power does and how power works. He certainly articulated variouselements of compulsorypower. His explicit discussion of power was largely limited to its multiple instruments(for him military force, economic wealth, and public opinion or propaganda)that could be used to overcome resistance from another "political society." Yet he also attended to features of institutionalpower as he saw how power works through internationalinstitutions, including international law, which, in turn, shape the policies of states and help to legitimate and sustain internationalorders. In Carr's view, internationalorganizations, such as the League of Nations and emergent principles of internationallaw, institutionalize the interests of the powerful and work against those of the weak. His critique of the League of Nations, therefore, included more than the standard(but false) criticism that its architects and advocates believed that somehow it would magically erase the causes of war; it also included the claim that these international institutionsthat embodied so-called universalprinciples,in fact, maintainthe international status quo at the expense of some in the service of others. The hubris of idealists, Carr argued, is to believe that somehow these internationalinstitutions are antidotes to power and representa positive-sum game. Indeed, for Carr,it was the very fact that they mask relations of power that transformsthem into stealth weapons of domination. As a student of Marx, Carr also saw power as structural-as including social processes that define state interests themselves. Drawing inspiration from Marxian theories of false consciousness, for example, he claimed that ideologies such as free trade are part of power politics precisely because they can lead indoctrinated states to consent to new forms of economic relations that insert them into new relations of dependence and exploitation. Internationalorders are easier to sustain for the powerful if the dominated submit to their own domination, Carr acknowledged clearly and explicitly. Finally, as someone who was influenced by
124. Carr 1964.
123. Fora related see argument, Baldwin2002, 178.
Mannheim,he was keenly aware of how broad discourses such as "progress,"carried by intellectuals and established institutions, constitute what are acceptable practices and goals (always trying but never quite eradicatingpower) and shape broader categories of "civilized" and "uncivilized" states. Carr reminds us that power power exists at the surface, and also well below; he shows that to understand means to understandits various forms. As scholars of internationalrelations continue to debate the nature,role, and explanatorysignificance of power, they should recognize the workings of multiple concepts and systematically employ them in their research.After all, that is the way Carrwould have wanted it.
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Power in International Politics Author(s): Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall Source: International Organization, Vol. 59, No.

Power in International Politics

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5. SeeKeohane andKeohane Martin and 1995. 1984;

6. See Moravcsik 1997; and Slaughter 1995.

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41. Barnett and Finnemore 2004.

56. Gill andLaw 1989.

57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62.

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74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 1996, 79.

87. Gruber 2000. 88. Strange 1989.

93. See Stiglitz2002;Dahl2003;Keohane Nye 2003;andWellens 2002. and

94. Keck Sikkink and 1998. 95. Price 1998.

96. 97. 98. 99. 100.

101. Ruggie 2002. 102. Ibid.

108. Mehta2003, 51-52.

111. See Gowan2003;andWallerstein 2003.

118. See Ferguson 2003; Mallaby 2002; and Kagan 2003.

122. Jupille, Caporaso, and Checkel 2003.

124. Carr 1964.

123. Fora related see argument, Baldwin2002, 178.

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