New Thinking in Measuring National Power

prepared for the WISC Second Global International Studies Conference
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 23–26 July 2008

 

http://www.wiscnetwork.org/ljubljana2008/papers/WISC_2008-137.pdf

Navigare Necesse Est! Maritimity and the Prospect of a Korean Blue Water Navy
prepared for the 5th East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG) in Seoul, Korea, 13–16 December 2008
supan.pdf
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A revised version of the conference paper was published in 2008 in the Geopolitics Quarterly 3 (4), 99–113:

 

http://www.sid.ir/En/VEWSSID/J_pdf/108020070406.pdf

GIGA Working Paper № 136 (May 2010)

 

Measuring Geopolitical Power in India: A Review of the National Security Index (NSI)

 

 This review examines how India perceives its own rise to power by undertaking a detailed analysis of the Indian National Security Index (NSI) for the period from 2003 to 2008. Like other power formulas, the NSI includes various indicators of power, though it is uniquely Indian in that it initially emphasized human development and later included ecology based on a holistic human‐security paradigm. The analysis demonstrates that this  holistic approach has now been abandoned in favor of a more conventional one, and that the technical formulas and theoretical concepts of the NSI exhibit various inconsistencies and problems. In particular, one can recognize the absolute need for a unified standard for handling variables in the construction of composite indexes in general.


Keywords: India, geopolitics, statistics, power formula, power index, human security

 

http://www.giga-hamburg.de/content/publikationen/pdf/wp136_hwang.pdf

Power in Alexander Supan's Guidelines to General Political Geography (1918/1920)
„PRZEGLĄD GEOPOLITYCZNY” 2011, T. 3
powerinsupan.pdf
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Four Early Attempts to Develop Power Formulas (1741–1955)
Stosunki Międzynarodowe – International Relations
nr 3–4 (t. 44) 2011
earlyformulas.pdf
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Geopolitics and the Measurement of National Power
Ph.D. Thesis (submitted 2011, approved 2013)

 

http://ediss.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2014/6550/

The Deplorable Performance of Replicable National Power Indexes
Potęgometria 3, 9–34, Dez. 2016
performance.pdf
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Siberia, or the importance of territory for national power
in: Dariusz Popławski (ed), 2022, Studia nad potęgą państw: Księga dedykowana Profesorowi Mirosławowi Sułkowi, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Sp. z o.o., Warszawa, 15–25.
Studia nad potęgą państw-15-25.pdf
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Human Rights Activist — Tajikistan — 2006
Human Rights Activist — Tajikistan — 2006