POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Stag Hunt, Great Power, Hard Power
2 Apr 2018
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Unipolar (in)stability: systemic change managing the rise and fall of great powers. Hegemonic war: us of a has put more money into its budget for the military compared to all other countries. Unipolar stability: the unipolar threshold too powerful to be balanced. When one great power has become so powerful compared to the others, it becomes too costly for other great powers to balance that oversized power. Less likely of formation of a counter-hegemonic alliance. Stag hunt strong small stag surrounded by many bunnies, hunters have a much stronger incentive to just hunt rabbits instead of gang together to go after the stag. Eurasia: going to balance for regional rivals, but bandwagon on global issues with the us. Nukes make power of hegemon less threatening bc of nuclear deterrence: places some limitations on what the us can do with russia (both countries have nukes) Not a good idea for the hegemon if they want to sustain their superiority in.
