GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trench Warfare, World War I, Free Trade
24 Sep 2016
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General idea is that actors have incentives to cooperate with one another, but do not do so because of temptation to cheat and fear of being double-crossed Both neo-realists and neo-liberals use the pd to advance their worldview. temptation payoff is most appealing, reward payoff is second. temptation payoff is most appealing, reward payoff is second best. You are tempted to defect if you think the other person will cooperate (and vice-versa) Because you fear the other person will defect, you defect (and vice- versa) As a result, you both end up worse off that if you had cooperated. *neo-realists use pd to illustrate the difficulty of achieving international cooperation. *neo-liberals use pd to illustrate the potential for international cooperation in an anarchic environment. Neo-liberals have identified two ways in which actors can cooperate: Actors can cooperate through reciprocity and tit-for-tat behavior.
