Power politics

• deterrence theory
• conspicuous weapons-development
• pre-emptive strike
• blackmail
• the massing of military units on a border, whether for stationing or for exercises
• the imposition of tariffs or economic sanctions
• proxy warfare
• bait and bleed and "bloodletting"
• hard and soft balancing
• buck passing
• covert operations
• shock and awe
• asymmetric warfare

  Literature

• Hans J. Morgenthau, Scientific Man vs. Power Politics. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1946.
• —, . New York NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.
• Hans Köchler, "The United Nations Organization and Global Power Politics: The Antagonism between Power and Law and the Future of World Order," in: Chinese Journal of International Law, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 323–340.
• John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001.
• Michael Mann, The Sources of Social Power, voll. 1–4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge-New York, 1986–2012.
• Geoff Mulgan, Good and Bad Power, Penguin, 2005.
• Martin Wight, Power Politics, 2nd ed., Pelican Books, 1979.