POLI 243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Arms Control, Humanitarian Intervention, Economic Integration

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 243
• Professor: Mark Brawley

Document Summary

Reading notes: acharya regional security arrangements in a multipolar world. In the contemporary international system, two types of actors are seeking a return to a multipolar international order china (poses a serious challenge to the post-cold war balance of power it is a rising power) and. The role of regional arrangements: how can regional arrangement contribute to multipolarity, multipolarity as a strategic pursuit vs. multipolarity as a normative quest, strategic pursuit: linked to the distribution of material power military power and economic resources. States operating within strategic multipolarity maintain a strong preference for balance of power approaches to international order. Usually seeks weaker partners to develop a sphere of influence : normative goal: one"s ideational resources a forceful adherence to international law and institutions and a strong sense of collective identity. States in normative polarity accept and pursue the principles and mechanisms of cooperative security and seek to maintain international order through exercise of soft power .