Legal adviser in the Ministry of Justice and Civil Liberties

Abstract: Since old times, the source of power policy was represented by inequality between states. Throughout almost the entire history there have been states which imposed themselves more than others and not few times in detriment of others. In the past one would talk about empires and great empires. Empires are inherently politically unstable because the subordinated parts prefer almost all the time greater autonomy and the elites of the mentioned parts act almost all the time to acquire greater autonomy. Thus, empires do not collapse but rather disintegrate, usually very slow but sometimes extremely fast. Key words: Power, tendency in the evolution, history “Mica enciclopedie de politologie ” defines power as “a social fundamental phenomenon which consists in the capacity of taking decisions and of securing their achievement by using different means of persuasion and constraint; power is expressed in an asymmetrical relation (ruling – subjection and/or domination – subordination) between the factors at whose level it takes place.”1 The players on the political scene apply power in relationship with the others in two ways: first, “by using power directly in order to impose change in the competitor’s behaviour”, which means using military force, and the second way of applying power is the indirect one, which use