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Nye's concept of smart power and normativity

Nye claims that smart power is a normative concept. Au- thors of this article claim that the concept of smart power suffers from what we call the paradox of normativity. This paradox can be described as a normativity that does not offer any kind of normative standards or does not answer the question “what should we do”. The authors prove that the concept of smart power per se is not a normative concept because it does not provide us with any kind of norms except the norm of instrumental rationality ; instead it can be defined entirely in descriptive terms as the most effective ways to use our power in order to achieve what we want. The concept of smart power answers the ques- tion what we can do, but not the question what we should do or how we should use power.

smart power, normativity, Nye

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