POSC 020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mutual Assured Destruction, Collective Action, Advocacy Group
20 Mar 2017
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How to make war less likely, raise the cost of war, higher the cost of war, the less likely they will go to war, ex. Nuclear weapons: mutually assured destruction: one state launches weapons and other state does too and both are destroyed, ex. International trade can be harmed and lose money. Increase transparency: more information to resolve information problems, ex. Satellite technology, international organizations: have outside enforcement, outside commitments, iteration: repeated interaction, leads to incentive to keep promises, divide indivisible goods, reduces chance of war from indivisibility, ex. Share, link to other issues: money to improve development instead of giving the good, states are not unitary actors, domestic actors, leaders, bureaucracies and interest groups, the general public. Interest group: group with narrow interest that benefit from conflict: has power to lobby, bring voters, good at overcoming collective action problems, other groups may oppose war, ex.
