First, thanks for such an informative article. If I may, I have two more views on power I would like to add to the mix.

Warren J. Samuels all but defined "social power" as the ability to effect choices, i.e., choose among perceived alternatives and take action to bring that choice to fruition. He wrote about "oppportunity sets" as the ad hoc collections of sources of power that we possess, both material and immaterial (to include our psychological makeup), that we can employ in seeking to effect a particular choice. ["Welfare Economics, Property, and Power" in Perspectives of Property, Gene Wunderlich and W. L. Gibson, eds. (1973)]

The discussion of "strategical alliances" of force relations at the macro level put me in mind of The Society of the Spectacle, by Guy Debord (1968). His thesis is that the economic powers that be were at that time mastering the use of the pop culture/marketing complex to channel societal force relations in ways beneficial to them (which can certainly include simply keeping people too distracted to allow serious political opposition to develop, as Joseph Goebbels, the chief of propaganda for the Nazis, explicitly understood).