POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pareto Efficiency, Security Dilemma, Nash Equilibrium
2 Apr 2018
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Foreign policy decision making: psychological approaches, state-society relations (liberal theory, bureaucratic politics. Fp as a compromise between self-interested governmental offices or groups. Where you stand depends on where you sit . Decisions made by a few actors that are all presumed to be pursuing their own interests instead of that of the national good. Psychological factors dispositional dimension (because of) Pure rationality intentional dimension (in order to) Strategic interactions: bargaining (zero-sum game) there are no gains to be made (across the pareto frontier, cooperation (positive-sum game) there are gains to be made (before the pareto frontier) Baseball vs ballet game (man wants to go to baseball, woman wants to go to baseball) Coordination problems (dilemmas of common aversions: main obstacle to cooperation: communication, problem about expectations from one about where the other was going to go. Collaboration problems (dilemmas of common interests: main obstacle to cooperation: cheating, nash equilibrium.
