INR 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Security, Anzus, Collective Action
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No single political authority higher than the state. In anarchy, states are dependent on self-help. No police (like world police type stuff) Nonetheless, states cooperate and build institutions that affect security and prospects of war and peace. Alliances are institutions that facilitate military cooperation in the event of war. Germany and russia ally to split poland (1939) Coalition of the willing in iraq (2003) South korea, japan, via nato: canada and most western and central european states. Alliances increase the costs of war expands the bargaining range war less likely. But they create new information asymmetries, leading to new bargaining failures. A and b have the same potential for bargaining failures as in 2 party conflicts. A and b may have different estimates of c"s reliability. If a thinks c is reliable a may want too much. If b thinks c is unreliable b may want too much.
