POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Stephen Walt, Bargaining, Freeriding
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Dyadic relations: who gets along with whom: three basic possibilities: Neutral: three basic possibilities when one of the states is a great power: Trying to stay out of the conflict and letting another state take the reins without enduring costs of conflict. He is known for proposing the balance of threat . Aggregate power (blatant power: function of amount resources, size of population, economic might of a country. Is there easy access, separated by an ocean, are there mountain ranges. Offensive power: does the state have military capacity to launch an attack. Aggressive intentions: does state show signs of invading, looking to take over territory = i. e. germany displayed signals of having aggressive intentions, this is up to the eye of the beholder. Cannot explain why a state would choose the balance of power without choosing these. When these four components all work in balancing powers.
