POL208Y1 Lecture 14: International Organizations and Alliances
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Institutions that help their members cooperate in the event of a war. Specify behavior; monitoring and verifying compliance; procedures for joint decision making. Usually security interests, throughout history, states have joined alliances that have little or nothing mutual with each other aside from safety, all about survival. Maintain a balance of power and avoid conflict, Bandwagoning: join forces with the stronger side of conflict. Credibility (strength of threat; is fighting preferable to abandonment; convincing adversary of commitment; entrapment) Ending international anarchy i: international organizations (io) and collective. Realist: mere instruments of foreign policy, arenas for advancing national self interest, can"t overcome sovereignty. Liberal: crucial means of enabling cooperatoion, neutral arbiter, collective security. Marxist: io"s reflect prevailing distribution of power > tool of the powerful. Origins: h. grotius-law of nature (reason), assembly of nations necessary to enforce natural law. League of nations (1919) dominated by great powers , unanimityfailure. Types: intergovernmental organizations (un, nato, wto, oas )
