POLI 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rein, Market Failure, Neoliberalism
28 Sep 2014
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States are reluctant to create ios because of a twin problem. Resources: realism, liberalism, relative gains, cheating. Vision functions for ios which lead states to create them: principal-agent theory. Politics is in what the ios due in controlling those delegating functions: the theories above in today"s world, neorealism. Wednesday, september 12, 2012: why do theory, facts never speak for themselves. Everyone has their own lenses when approaching problems. We naturalize the categories through which we look. Theory helps us verbalize the way we see the concept: depending on one"s theoretical assumptions, ios can be. Its like a jungle states are on their own and they must take care of themselves. Want to gain a lot of power: pay attention to military and economies. Not chaos just no overarching authority. Distribution of material capabilities is key: great powers create ios to foster their interests: the lower countries are at the bottom of the chain.
