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INR
Exam 1
8
International Studies
Undergraduate 1
02/16/2012

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Term
3 categories of interests
Definition

·      Power/ security

·      Economic/ material welfare

IdIdeological goals

Term

What factors facilitate cooperation?

Definition

"when two or more actors adopt policies that make at least one better off relative to the status quo WITHOUT making the others worse"

 

Term

Four ways institutes facilitate cooperation

Definition

Setting standards of behavior

Verifying compliance

Reducing the costs of joint decision making

Resolving disputes

Term

Two reasons why credibility is hard to achieve. 

Definition

their targets appreciate the costs of carrying them out

 

conflicting interests at hart of the bargaining interaction

Term
Other explanations for the DP
Definition

Chance

 

Democracies tend to be the most developed and wealthiest countries

 

Similarity of government structures

Counter-point: USSR vs China in the 1960s; monarchies

 

Similarity of interests

Term
Success of alliance depends on...
Definition

Strong common interests

e.g. NATO all want the same thing

 

Ability of the alliance to alter members’ preferences so that in the event of war, fighting is preferred to abandonment

 

Adversaries must see the alliance as credible

 

Ability of the alliance to limit the risks of entrapment

Term
Two essential requirements of the UN
Definition

1) none of the veto-wielding members can see a potential operation as threating to its interests

 

2) member states must care enough to devote the necessary resources

Term
Three problems of conflict resolution
Definition
Incomplete information
Difficulty of commitment to honor a deal
Goods that are hard to divide
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