"First you get the money, then you get the power..."

The Carr article, I find, further proves the old saying correctly. "First you get the money, then you get the power..." Carr shows us that it is very difficult for states that not economically powerful to have hard power in international relations. Without the money, poor countries can not get a grand army to help defend their national interests. In international trade if these countries have raw materials that a powerful country needs they have to give in to the larger country. If they don't they risk interference from the large country militarily and economically. In a sense small countries are stuck between a rock and a hard place. In addition to that the power states often tries to hide their true rational, always hiding behind ideology. The power states use propaganda as their vehicle to get the dirty work done. I wish that it could not be this way, but in a world of anarchy this seems to be the only viably efficient option.