Elements or attributes of national power have been described as ‘those qualities which distinguish the power and capabilities of one state from another”.10 based on this, two broad categories are delineated namely tangible and intangible categories or element. The tangible elements, that is those that can be “assessed in quantitative terms”, including geography, raw materials, natural resource endowments, population and technological know-how .
Some commendation include political stability and military/industrial capabilities as tangible
attributes of a state’s power. 11 while military capability and industrial capacity can be subsumed within technological know –how, it would be difficult to subject political stability to any quantitative assessment as a tangible element of state or national power.
Ideologies, national morale and leadership are identified as intangible elements of national power, while it may be difficult for us to enter upon a detailed analysis of the various elements are highlighted above, due essentially to the fact that they have been sufficiently dealt with in the literatures,12 and for space constraints, we must not fail to point out the fact that a close observation of these so
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