In a world composed of an array of state and sub-national actors, a major power must have the capacity to foster and maintain alignments. These might be empires forged through coercion, alliances struck by common interests and values, economic relationships struck by common incentives, the attraction of common ideologies or culture, or other factors. To project power beyond a state’s borders requires its leaders to recruit other actors in the international system to its side.
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