POL208Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: John Locke, Hegemony
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We can still get cooperation, even in anarchy. Institution can: facilitate communication, lower the costs of bargaining and deliberation, create inertia needed for cooperation, increase access to information. Cannot treat the state as a single unitary actor: care about different things. Domestic interest also shape state behaviour: partisan interest, lobbies and interest groups, economic and political factions, ngo and social movements. Us and ussr realism says is similar because they"re both powerful, but the internal. States don"t exist only a state of anarchy but also in a state of globalization and. Conquest does not pay why bother? independence. To some extent but they also care about. Criticism, realism and liberalism argue past each other not against each other. The problem of uncertainty in international politics structure shapes countries in certain ways according to liberalism. This means more cooperation (even for selfish states) You can"t quantify uncertainty like you can quantify risk.
