POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Security Dilemma, Neoliberalism, Spiral Model
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Threatens sparta wants to attack athens before the wall is finished being built. Buy more security you are less secure. When you fail: the spiral model of war. Seen as threat to others who move in deterrence. Most moves are supposed to be defensive but this does not matter. Rational actors may fail to cooperate even when cooperation is the optimal collective outcome. Rational choice is an instrument/tool that theorists can use and does not define the nature of human nature. Based on all available actions, the actor has a clear ordering of preferences over all possible outcomes. The actor will choose the policy which leads to an outcome that offers maximum utility at a minimal cost. The problem of aggregation (lemmings marxism)- outcomes need to be rational across all levels of analysis. Must work like the lemmings how do you get individuals to act like lemmings.
