ABSTRACT
This chapter is premised on three basic methodological tenets. First, world power is best grasped as a multilateral configuration. Studies should not be focused exclusively on the pole, or poles, of domination. Rather, they ought to pay some systematic attention to the network of global power relations. Second, world power is better understood as being multi-dimensional. It is not just or mainly economic, nor is it only or chiefly economic and military; it should be seen as being also demographic and cultural. Third, analyses should include the imbrication or interaction between the foreign and the domestic, between national and international politics and policy.
