POLI 341 Lecture Notes - Economic Sanctions, Civil Society, Nabil Elaraby

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How has cooperation contributed to regional order: despite the rhetoric of pan-arab unity, in terms of states cooperating and fp, it has been very limited and fluid. Realism/neorealism: decisions to cooperate are motivated by whats going to help that state, state interests, securing or consolidating their position (waltz) Saudi arabia intervening in bahrain protests: balancing against threat (walt) Arab states form alliances in 20th c in opposition to israel: regional hegemony. States will involve themselves in another state to increase their own power (mearsheimer, nye) Egypt trying to establish itself as the regional power. Syria and saudi arabia have acted this way as well. But no one state in the arab world has succeeded in this. Constructivism: shared experiences, norms, values, identity (barnett, pan arab identity as most common. Liberalism: shared interests interdependence between states (keohane) States are economically dependent on each other: somewhere between realism and constructivism, in a state"s interest to cooperate with others (informally or more institutionalized)

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