第8章 経済的権力 n.3 - 政府の経済力と軍事力の関係
このように,私的個人の経済力は,誰が(その)土地へのアクセスを許されるかに関する一連の規則に従って,必要であれば軍事力を使用する政府の決定にかかっている(依存している)。他方,政府の経済力は,一部はその軍事力(の大小)に依存し,また,一部は他国の政府の条約や国際法に対する尊重にかかっている。 |
Chapter VIII: Economic Power, n.3Credit is more abstract than other kinds of economic power, but is not essentially different; it depends upon the legal right to transfer a surplus of consumable commodities from those who have produced them to others who are engaged in work which is not immediately productive. In the case of a private person or corporation which borrows money, the obligations can be enforced by law, but in the case of a government the ultimate sanction is the military power of other governments. This sanction may fail, as in Russia after the Revolution ; when it fails, the borrower simply acquires the property of the lender. For example, it is the Soviet Government, not the pre-war shareholders, that has power to decide who shall have access to the Lena goldfields.Thus the economic power of private persons depends upon the decision of their government to employ its armed forces, if necessary, in accordance with a set of rules as to who shall be allowed access to land; while the economic power of governments depends in part upon their armed forces, and in part upon the respect of other governments for treaties and international law. |