Author: Giulio Gallarotti

Dear colleagues, We are inviting applications from early career researchers (PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, or untenured professors) to take part in a workshop on “Power Dynamics in Institutional Complexity.”The workshop will take place in Québec City on September 20-21, 2024.  The theme: In the field of international studies, “power” is arguably the most extensively discussed concept, while “institutional complexity” is probably the concept that has gained the most prominence in the last decade. The interplay between these two concepts, however, has not been thoroughly examined. Questions remain regarding whether institutional complexity benefits or hinders the most powerful actors, the strategies employed by…

Announcing the publication by Routlege of two books on power: Alternative Paths to Influence: Soft Power and International Politics (routledge.com) This book offers new and cutting-edge analyses of under-explored subjects and issues in the realm of soft power. It attempts to fill significant scholarly gaps in understanding the process by which soft power is created, as well as gaps in demonstrating its impact. Soft power is one of the most influential ideas in the study of international politics over the past thirty years. Can nations attain their most vital foreign policy objectives in agreeable ways? Advocates of the concept of…

I have compiled a list of the greatest works from a survey of the leading scholars studying power. It is available on this site at https://powerstudies.org/greatest-works-on-power/ GG