Re: Invisible Strengths

Just a little remark - Ukraine does not posess nuclear weapons any more.
Ukraine had given away it's nuclear arsenal in 1992-93, as far as I
remember. Actually it was transferred to Russia in exchange for nuclear
power plants fuel and security guarantees from international community
(mainly USA and Russia).



----- Original Message -----
From: g kohler
To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 9:17 PM
Subject: Invisible Strengths


An article by Petros Haritatos about "Invisible Strengths" got me thinking
about how weak or strong the global underdogs actually are. "Global
underdogs" could be defined in two ways - (a) as periphery versus core, or
(b) as masses versus elites. Estimating "strength" is an old habit in
political science of the kind of Hans Morgenthau and Karl Deutsch. There,
"power" is distinguished from "capabilities" ("capabilities" denoting the
raw inputs, usable for "power", e.g.,  500 pounds of coffee or 500 soldiers
or 500 dollars or 500 experts). Here are some simple figures about
"capabilities" --


A.   First World - Rest of World
(1) Who has the world's nuclear weapons?
First World:_____USA, France, UK, Israel
Rest of World:___Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, China, India,
Pakistan