·      Power/ security

·      Economic/ material welfare

IdIdeological goals

What factors facilitate cooperation?

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

Four ways institutes facilitate cooperation

Setting standards of behavior

Verifying compliance

Reducing the costs of joint decision making

Resolving disputes

Two reasons why credibility is hard to achieve. 

their targets appreciate the costs of carrying them out

conflicting interests at hart of the bargaining interaction

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

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

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