International Relations of Chile

CURRENT REALITIES OF NATIONAL POWER

Current realities of national power for Chile are considered within the contexts of (1) geography, (2) national resources, (3) industrial capacity, (4) military preparedness, (5) population, (6) national will, (7) the quality of diplomacy, and (8) the quality of government. These factors are considered as they hold the potential to have an impact on international relations.

Chile is bounded on the north by Peru, on the east by Argentina and Bolivia, and on the south and west by the Pacific ocean (Paxton, 1990). Geography is highly influential in the country's foreign relations. To the south, an extension of the boundary line between Chile and Argentina extends into the sea. This fact leads directly to two international relations issues.

First, there is the ongoing dispute between Chile and Argentina as to how maritime sovereignty should be determined (Merrill, 1989). Second, this geographic factor has a direct bearing on Chile's longheld claim to an official standing with respect to sovereignty in the antarctic (Mitchell, 1980).

National resources, for the purposes of this research, are considered within t

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9). The distinction between the power to hurt and the power to sieze or hold forceably is important (George, Hall, and Simon, 1989). The use of coercion requires that the using state possess the power to hurt to state to which the coercion is applied. The success of coercive action depends more on the threat of what is yet to come than on damage already done (George, Hall, and Simon, 1989). The use of coercion also requires that the interests of the two states concerned not be absolutely opposed (George, Hall, and Simon, 1989). If the coercing state had no commonality of interest with the target state, it would simply impose the hurt on that target state, rather than attempting to gain its objectives through coercive action (George, Hall, and Simon, 1989). The use of coercion by states, however, is always a highrisk action, because it is quite likely to inspire an unpleasant response from the target state (George, Hall, and Simon, 1989). The threat of the use of force was implicit in a wide variety of bilateral issues involving Chile inder the Pinochet government (Merrill, 1989). Under Bernado Frei's government, Chile sought to maintain power and influence in Sout
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