POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pareto Efficiency, Status Quo, Rationality
8 May 2017
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Rational action because states make the decision to go to war. Models we use are very simplified, but get most of the picture (parsimony) Because there are conflicting interests between various parties. Most disputes are settled by peaceful bargaining, but failures here lead to war. War is rare but leaves a major impact on society. Implies that the actors are on the pareto frontier and must redistribute their share somehow, or that cooperation is exceedingly difficult. War becomes a form of bargaining along the pareto frontier. Wars can be fought over territories, policies (genocide, wmds , human rights issues, regime types) Reversion outcome: when no bargain is reached, usually the status quo sometimes there are threats however, that things will change. Bargaining power: depends on the relative satisfaction with the reversion outcome, so the one who is most satisfied or least harmed by the reversion outcome holds bargaining power. Crisis bargaining: bargaining under the threat of war (coercive diplomacy)
