Gilpin argues that unlike wealth, power cannot be quantified because _________

a. we do not have a theoretical unit to measure the amount of force applied by one state to another
b. it has a significant psychological component
c. a state's power is, in practice, impossible to determine
d. a state's power is measured relative to other states, not in absolute terms


b

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