POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pareto Efficiency, Rationality, Utility
8 May 2017
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Contends that cooperation is more common than conflict. Theory of interdependence and how this fuels cooperation. Doesn"t guarantee cooperation automatically or even if things look good for it. In most contexts one can assume that war is costly and will not break out in general. Rely on fact that war will probably not start so you don"t have to always be on edge. Other don"t attack because it would harm them somehow. Cooperation problems rely on international regimes as facilitators of cooperation. Pareto efficiency can only be achieved through cooperation. -for realists, positional states were predominant because these relatives gains were seen to undermine cooperation. Realists believe that relative gains trump absolute ones. Liberals believe that absolute gains trump relative ones. V: state"s payoff, w: partner"s payoff, k: sensitivity to payoff gaps. If a state is more atomistic, k is lower. If a state is more positional, k is higher.
