DVM 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Aid Effectiveness, Good Governance, Dumbarton Oaks Conference
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States join io because they are instrumentally useful for them to preserve or extend power. Do it to get bene ts and returns. International realism: ios are the forums for projection of power. Liberal internationalism: ios are the forum for solving global problems that individual states cannot solve. Neoliberalism: gains from cooperation and self interest. Bargaining theory: the weak in the world of the strong can use ios to protect and promote their individual and collective interests. Constructivism: ios are instrumental in changing of international norms and values. Can give new direction to international life. Aforementioned give us the ability to de ne international organizations. They are then constructed, created by the states in order to improve bene ts of the states. Ios are the multilateral forums for the practice of coordinating national policies in groups of three or more states. Liberal institutionalism: international organizations are the fundamental subsets of international systems.