Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Collective Action, Neoliberalism, Rationality
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The main disagreement between realists and neo-realist is cooperation. Focus: cooperation is global politics= collective action problem. Is it long term or short term features. Many other names and variations: neo-classical liberals, neo-conservatives, structural liberals, etc Self-interest: are what they are fighting for something we agree with and want to support, harmony, a lot of states fighting for the same. State regime type matters-so does economic type and social values (fukuyama"s end of history claim) Believe history is progressive and linear: moving towards something, don"t see things as circular, war, peace, possibilities for human progress etc. , Actor: source of explaining change and interests. Most waffle between the two, but stress one.