The same as with many other concepts, once one considers the concept of power more closely, fundamental questions arise …, such as whether a power relation is necessarily a relation of subordination and domination, a view that makes it difficult … to identify legitimate forms of the exercise of power. To contribute to conceptual as well as normative clarification, I …

) belongs to the discipline of International Relations. However, this discipline lacks operational tools to perform an in …-depth analysis of systems with such level of complexity, systems that integrate (what from the International relations discipline … itself are considered) different levels of analysis interrelated among themselves. The Sociology of Power emerged from the …

quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production lines …. Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of dominant capital groups to reshape - or creorder - their society … of 'capital as power and a new history of the 'capitalist mode of power'. …