National power

This article is about the political term. For the former energy company, see National Power.

National power is defined as the sum of all resources available to a nation in the pursuit of national objectives.[1] Assessing the national power of political entities was already a matter of relevance during the classical antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and today.[2][failed verification] Classics Shang Yang,[3] Guan Zhong[4] and Chanakya,[5] widely discussed the power of state. Many other classics, such as Mozi,[6] Appian,[7] Pliny the Elder,[8] also concerned the subject. Herodotes described whence derives the power of Babylon.[9] The considerations of Hannibal on the matter is found in Titus Livy.[10]

  1. ^ "Instruments of national power." in US NATO Military Terminology Group (2010). JP 1 (02) "Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms", 2001 (As amended through 31 July 2010) (PDF). Pentagon, Washington: Joint Chiefs of Staff, US Department of Defense. p. 229. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 10, 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
  2. ^ Fels, Enrico (2017). Shifting Power in Asia-Pacific? The Rise of China, Sino-US Competition and Regional Middle Power Allegiance. Springer. pp. 225–340. ISBN 978-3-319-45689-8. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
  3. ^ Shang Yang, The Book of the Governor of Shang Region, (tr, Perelomov, L. S., Moscow: Nauka, 1993), pp 68-70, 142, 148, 150, 153, 161, 169-170, 172-173, 180.
  4. ^ Guanzi, (tr. Tan Po-fu, Connecticut: New Heaven, 1954), pp 48, 69, 95, 109, 170, 359-362.
  5. ^ R Shamasastry. Arthasastra_English_Translation.
  6. ^ Mozi 6:20, The Ethical and Political Works, (tr. Yi-Pao, M., London: Cheng Wen Press, 1974).
  7. ^ Appian, Roman History, 8:10:67, Complete Works, (tr. Golubzev E. S., Moscow: Nauka, 1998).
  8. ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 2:80:190, (London: Loeb, 1968).
  9. ^ Herodotus, The Histories, 1:193, (tr. Holland, Tom, London: Penguin Press, 2013).
  10. ^ Livy, History of Rome, 34:60:40, (London: Loeb, 1964).