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INSTRUMENTS OF POWER AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THEM AND SOLVING THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT THEM

So far I have argued that force is integral to statecraft because international politics is anarchic. By itself, that fact makes force fungible to a degree. Exactly how fungible an instrument is military power, however, and how does it compare in this regard to the other power assets a state wields? In this section, I answer these questions. First, I make a rough comparison as to the fungibility of the main instruments of statecraft. Second, I present a counterargument that force has little fungibility and then critique it.