The study of power in IR has produced insightful typologies, but the persisting paradigmatic divisions induce problems that stifle further progress. The fungibility problem concerns the missing links between the categories in the typologies as well as between typologies. The fragmentation problem arises from the difficulties of analysing diffuse agency. This article proposes a closer dialogue with Gramsci’s work and embeds the resulting inputs into a process-centred conceptualisation of power that can accommodate the dialectic analysis of social transformations from the Prison Notebooks. The intellectual exchange engenders an understanding in which different modalities of power can be linked together as mechanisms interfering with each other in an iterative open process. The conundrum of fragmented agency is revisited through the perspective of an integral power process that entangles actor interests and identities. These interventions create opportunities for meaningful interaction between studies into the different faces of power.

对国际关系中权力的研究产生了富有洞察力的类型学，但持续存在的范式分歧引发了阻碍进一步进步的问题。可替代性问题涉及类型学中类别之间以及类型学之间缺失的链接。碎片化问题源于分析分散代理的困难。本文提出与葛兰西的作品进行更密切的对话，并将由此产生的投入嵌入到以过程为中心的权力概念化中，该概念化可以适应《监狱笔记》中对社会转型的辩证分析。知识交流产生了一种理解，即不同形式的权力可以作为在迭代开放过程中相互干扰的机制联系在一起。通过纠缠参与者利益和身份的整体权力过程的视角，重新审视分散代理的难题。这些干预措施为不同权力方面的研究之间进行有意义的互动创造了机会。