POLI 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Hegemony, World Trade Organization, Common-Pool Resource
11 Dec 2017
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Politics & governance at the global level 11/15. International politics = anarchy: no one leader/higher authority that can dictate what is legitimate or not/has the power or not. Schools of thought that examine anarchy: (neo) realism (hobbes, thucydides, bismark, (neo) liberalism (j. s. Multipolarity, bipolarity, unipolarity: stability comes from balance of power, alternatively, a benevolent hegemon can maintain order (e. g. pax romana, problems: Security dilemma > every country must accumulate power to ensure its security, but this accumulation of power makes others less sure, so they accumulate power in return (out of fear) ^^prisoner"s dilemma emerges especially when there is fear, no central authority. Constructivism: anarchy is what you make of it , states spend as much time constructing, de ning, interpreting the national interest as defending it, social purpose varies (set of goals we pursue) (how it affects our behavior)
