TY - BOOK AU - Gallarotti,Giulio M. TI - Cosmopolitan Power in International Relations: A Synthesis of Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism SN - 9780511760839 (ebook) AV - JZ1305 .G35 2010 U1 - 327.101 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016) N2 - How can nations optimize their power in the modern world system? Realist theory has underscored the importance of hard power as the ultimate path to national strength. In this vision, nations require the muscle and strategies to compel compliance and achieve their full power potential. But in fact, changes in world politics have increasingly encouraged national leaders to complement traditional power resources with more enlightened strategies oriented around the use of soft power resources. The resources to compel compliance have to be increasingly integrated with the resources to cultivate compliance. Only through this integration of hard and soft power can nations truly achieve their greatest strength in modern world politics, and this realization carries important implications for competing paradigms of international relations. The idea of power optimization can only be delivered through the integration of the three leading paradigms of international relations: Realism, Neoliberalism, and Constructivism UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511760839 ER -