Protean Power and Uncertainty: Exploring the Unexpected in World Politics.
This article introduces the concept of protean power as the basis for a better analysis of unanticipated events in world politics. Protean power is the effect of actors' agility as they adapt in situations of uncertainty. This definition departs from conventional definitions of power, which focus on...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 80 - 94 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2018
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