Is power zero-sum or variable-sum? Old arguments and new beginnings

Journal of Political Power

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 5-31

  Read, James H ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

faces of power debate; Hannah Arendt; international relations theory; power; Talcott Parsons; variable sum; zero sum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859569923     PISSN: 2158379X     EISSN: 21583803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2158379X.2012.659865     Document Type: Article

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