ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 presents an analysis of agential power derived from resources – a more static approach, but still focused on actors rather than structures. This part includes a kind of international balance sheet in education and science. It also presents case studies of the United States, Europe, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and China, describing the most characteristic strategies employed by the great powers, and the most efficient approaches of their lesser counterparts, in the area of developing educational and scientific resources and applying them in the economy. In every case, these considerations take into account the peculiar conditions of the various models of capitalism that have historically emerged in these states.
