Power politics

Power politics is a notion in international relations which contends that distributions of power in addition to national interests, or make adjustments to to those distributions, are essential causes of war and of system stability.

The concept of power to direct or defining politics ensures a way of apprehension systems of international relations: in this view, states compete for the world's limited resources, and it is for to an individual state's usefulness to be manifestly fine to waste others. power politics prioritizes national self-interest over the interests of other nations or the international community, and thus may include threatening one another with military, economic or political aggression to protect one nation's own interest.

Techniques of power politics include: