Supreme Bargaining Power versus Supreme Military Power

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, , course: Internationale Politik, language: English, abstract: Diverse strategic approaches are compared and evaluated with regard to their sustainability. The dawning of the third millennium could have been accompanied by an awakening to a new state of mind and consciousness that has shaken off millennia old methods of conflict resolution by means of violence. But, human and in particular national strategic thinking seems to be characterized by business as usual, as if one had learnt nothing over the past 2000 years and as if Jesus's revolutionary intervention on human relational assumptions had never happened. And one pays the price for ignoring it out of self-complacency. How long can man ignore it in this multicultural millennium where conflict scenarios are likely to abound due to multiple interrelated new factors at a planetary scale.