“This course is organized around the idea that war and conflict are different manifestations of a more general understanding of politics. Politics in this course is defined as a process of interaction between strategic actors seeking interdependent outcomes. Achieving one’s desired outcome in this setting requires power. Nye, in Chapter 1 of his book, The Future of Power, discusses two broad frameworks to understand power–“behavioral outcomes”, or “relational”, definitions of power, and “power as resources” definition of power.
Which of these two general understandings of power do you find most useful and why?”