PSC 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Great Power, Offensive Realism
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State behavior: all great powers believe that all powers are potential enemies. International system: states have to make decisions with incomplete info, due to exaggerations, difficult to determine how new weapons will work , defensive realists, constraints of international system so powerful that offense rarely succeeds and is punished. Important for a power to figure out when to raise and when. Iv: definition, hegemon is a state so powerful that it dominates all the other states in the system , only great power in the system, domination of the system (entire world, global hegemony vs regional hegemons. Power and fear: the amount of fear between states determines the severity of their security competition and probability that they will fight, more fear, more intense competition, more likelihood of war. Cooperation among states: states can cooperate but it is hard to achieve and harder to sustain.
