POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Hegemony, Security Dilemma
8 May 2017
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Cost of war raises and the bargaining range shifts or increases/decreases in size based on an alliance. Strategies can be more or less dominant based on the potential payoff. For example in a pd where the payoff differences between cooperation and defection are small, avoiding mutual defection is not a priority. If the difference is larger, there are many incentives to overcome a cooperation problem. Balance of power system has a lower difference in payoffs between mutual defection and mutual cooperation. Concert system emerges when cooperation payoff is far higher than defection payoff. Has two consequences, bond between hegemonic allies remains strong based on differences from the loser bound by common concentrated potential threat. Also highly sensitive to the costs of war there"s a certain trust in this arrangement. Similar to what neoliberal institutionalists believe with the costs of war. Realists believe this is an issue of immediacy of the war that just ended.
