Explain the factors that influence a country's power to control territory

The main factors that influence a country's power to control territory are military, capital and the level of industrialization. A rich country with a highly capable military could be said to be high in hard power. The economic provides the ability to obtain it, maintain it and hard power can bolster it. Soft power denotes the ability to explicitly or implicitly influence other states via cultural influence, sometimes economic influence.

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