1. POWER – what it is and how to fight it

2. WHO HAS THE POWER? The Masters of the Universe The economic elite The state apparatus The state apparatus Politicians? Politicians? Opinion formers? Opinion formers?

3. What does having power allow you to do? Make the decisions Decide priorities Decide allocation of resources

4. Is power concentrated or dispersed? Power in companies? Power in families? Power in relationships State power and its exercise? Power in local communities? All the same type of power? Religious power?

5. The importance of ideas and control of the media

6. Who guards the power?

7. Key concepts in power DemocracyDictatorshipCapitalismBureaucracyFreedomJusticeExploitation

8. Power in a theocratic state Iran/Saudi Arabia/Israel Power of the rich has to be be negotiated with clerical leaders

9. Key theorists of power Max Weber Karl Marx C. Wright Mills Michel Foucault Feminist theorists of power