GVPT 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: United Nations General Assembly, Treaty Establishing A Constitution For Europe, Currency Union
7 Dec 2015
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Ir applications of prisoners dilemma: free trade, arms control, compliance with international treaties, trench warfare in wwi. Cooperation under the prisoners" dilemma: neo liberals have identified two ways in which actors can cooperate. Decentralized cooperation: actors can cooperate through reciprocity and tit for tat, decentralized cooperation requires behavior. Centralized cooperation: international institutions help actors cooperate by: Unitary rational actor assumption: the idea that a country (or an actor) automatically makes the correct foreign policy decision that is in the. National interest : in the pd example we assume the actors are rational (and unitary) Rational decision-making (implicit or explicit: identify goals and objectives, outline alternatives or options, assess the possible consequences of each alternative, select optimal alternative. Kahnemann and renshon- why hawks win: people aren"t fully rational, but instead have many, almost all of these biases favor conflict over cooperation decision-making biases. Don"t understand the other side, assume they don"t understand you.
