The comprehensive power of the state, inter-relationships, and relative standards among its elements

The comprehensive power of the state represents the starting point for implementing its foreign policy. The outputs of this power also determine the role and place of the state in the strategic balance equations in its international or regional format. Estimates of the comprehensive power of countries are one of the important determinants on which political relations and the formation of international and regional alliances are built. Studies related to the state’s comprehensive power are considered one of the basic concerns in geostrategic studies, which strategic thought has been concerned with for a long time, as it is the sum of the state’s total natural resources, and the effectiveness of its vital population, geographic, economic, and military mass as a solid (material or tangible) force for the state, in addition to its power. The soft state (non-material or intangible) in its diplomatic, internal political, technological, media, information, and moral interactions. It is important for contemporary transformations to study the uses of power, between hard power and soft power, and other smart power, or skilled power, or virtual power, all of which are components of the comprehensive power of the state