NATIONAL PERFORMANCE
This realm of analysis comprises three major areas: external constraints, infrastructural capacity, and ideational resources. The first pertains to the external pressures that challenge the country. The second describes the relationship between the state and other social groups in the country. The state, in this context, is understood to be the governing institutions of a country. The state has to be strong enough to mobilize a country’s capacity to provide the resources necessary to create military power. Whereas infrastructural capacity refers to materiel, ideational resources are less tangible but no less essential. They are required to convert the material into power. They comprise such things as a nation’s value system and problem-solving ability.