s: Write a 750-1250 word essay (word count matters!) answering the question below. Read the question carefully. The course material in Modules 1 and 2 should provide you enough resources to make a compelling argument, but the sparing use of outside resources is permitted.
"This course is organized around the idea that war and conflict are different manifestations of a more general understanding of politics. Politics in this course is defined as a process of interaction between strategic actors seeking interdependent outcomes. Achieving one's desired outcome in this setting requires power. Nye, in Chapter 1 of his book, The Future of Power, discusses two broad frameworks to understand power--"behavioral outcomes", or "relational", definitions of power, and "power as resources" definition of power.
Which of these two general understandings of power do you find most useful and why?"