Power Politics is a book by international relations scholar Martin Wight, first published in 1946 as a 68-page essay.
[6] Great Powers win and lose their status through violence, and are defined by their ability to wage war; they are decreasing in number, but those remaining are increasing in size.
[7] He argues that War and revolution go together: communism provoked fascist and Nazi responses; and both ideologies were led by "gangsters" seeking to rule the world.
[12] And, furthermore, '"diplomacy is a 'European invention imposed on the world,'"[13] which "consists in information, negotiation, and communication, but also, covertly, in espionage, subversion and propaganda".
Wight concludes that "security" is inseparable from moral behavior and cites William Ewart Gladstone and Franklin Roosevelt as examples of the latter.
According to Charles Manning, Hedley Bull, Sir Michael Howard, and Hans Morgenthau Martin Wight is one of the finest international thinkers of the 20th century.