Measuring National Power in the Post-industrial Age

Ashley J. Tellis,Janice Bially,Christopher Layne,Melissa MacPherson

Format
Paperback
Publisher
RAND
Country
United States
Published
19 December 2000
Pages
177
ISBN
9780833027924

Measuring National Power in the Post-industrial Age

Ashley J. Tellis,Janice Bially,Christopher Layne,Melissa MacPherson

The arrival of post-industrial society has transformed the traditional bases of national power, and thus the methods used to measure the relative power of nations should be reassessed as well. Appreciating the true basis of national power requires not merely a meticulous detailing of visible military assets but also a scrutiny of larger capabilities embodied in such variables as the aptitude for innovation, the soundness of social institutions, and the quality of the knowledge base - all of which may bear upon a country’s capacity to produce the one element still fundamental to international politics: effective military power. The authors reconfigure the notion of national power to accommodate a wider understanding of capability, advancing a conceptual framework that measures three distinct areas - national resources, national performance, and military capability - to help the intelligence community develop a better evaluation of a country’s national power. The analysis elaborates the rationale for assessing each of these and offers ideas on how to measure them in tangible ways.

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