Instruments of power and their importance for strategic Intelligence

Abstract

In the international system, countries seek to exert influence and power over others to materialize their interests and prevail in it. In the last fifty years, the United States has been one of the main hegemonies in the world, however, trying to understand how it has achieved its influence and materialize its interests in the international system would not be easy, if the concept of instruments is not understood of power. In this sense, a bibliographic review of the concepts of power instruments proposed by Joseph Nye, and an analysis of Worley Robert's approaches was carried out, which led us to induce that countries leverage their power or capacities through the instruments of power, known under the acronym DIME (Diplomacy, Information, Military, Economy) through which they seek to materialize their foreign policy and exert influence on other actors in the international system. Many of these instruments cannot be identified with the naked eye, and this is why it is imperative that strategic intelligence makes visible the use of these by other international actors, to guide and design a good national security strategy.