ABSTRACT
Political power involves the right and responsibility of a group to administer its internal and external affairs. The purpose of power at the national level is to irake sanebody "do something or not do something or stop doing scmething" (Schelling, 1973). The aim is usually to influence behavior, though at times national power may be directed at influencing ideals and nental constructs as well. Power at the international level is fundamentally "the capacity of a political unit to impose its will on other political units" (Aran, 1968, p. 57), or conversely, the ability of a political unit to resist other political units' efforts to impose their will on itself.
