PSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Great Game, Free Trade, Munich Agreement
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Hopefully this model teaches us something about the real and complex world. Leaders are rational (that the leaders do what is in their best interest given what they know: sometimes they do something that is objectively not in their best interest but they didn"t know. Countries and leaders are strategic: acting in the way that takes into in account the expected actions of the people or actors or whoever you are interacting with. War is costly: means that the cost of war is greater than zero, use people, resources, distracts from other state"s goals. Unitary actor assumption: this is a false assumption. Assumption of convenience: state has interests that has information that has one interest, but not true because maybe they don"t have the same interest. In any international bargaining a wide range of possible outcomes exist. *if we could agree and there were no other problems there would not be a war.