International politics has been defined in terms of influencing 'major groups in the world so as to advance
the purposes of some against the opposition of others' (Wright, 1955: 130). Although the term 'power
politics' has unsavory connotations for some, such a definition implies that the term is redundant (Carr,
[1939]1946; Morgenthau, [1948]1960; Sprout and Sprout, 1945; Spykman, 1942; Wright, 1955). From this
perspective, all politics is power politics in the sense that all politics involves power. This is not to say that
politics is only about power.