REFLECTIONS OVER THE PHENOMENON OF STATE POWER

Abstract

Power is perceived as a very interesting phenomenon for those scientists who make research on contemporary states. This problem strongly influences their internal organization, as well as their functioning effectiveness. The phenomenon is undoubtedly multidimensional and has remained in the field of interest of not only lawyers and state theorists, but also of political scientists, psychologists, sociologists, as well as representatives of various other fields of science and disciplines. The herebypaper aimsat taking up an effort of making a sort of selection and verificationof very different approaches in defining of this complex concept among those exisiting in the doctrine, as well as determining its sources, analyzing this issue in its various dimensions and categories, such as: state power, political power, public power, also from the perspective of confronting it with other directly related to it notions, such as: legitimisation, ruling and forms of its overtaking. These deliberationsmight help us to better comprehend this phenomenonwhich may result in its more effective exercising for the benefit of the common good of thestate, which still remains the main form ofsocieties’ political organization.