Study Guides for Richard Frank

Why are institutions valuable for actors that interact frequently? Actors can avoid renegotiating rules by having permanent procedures. If two states have nuclear weapons and credibly commit to using them in a war, what ef...

Chapter 6: Civil war: a war in which the main participants are within the same state, such as the government and a rebel group. Separatist groups: an actor that seeks to create an independent state in territory carved from...

Chapter 1: Mercantilism: An economic doctrine based on a belief that military power and economic influence complimented each other; applied especially to colonial empires in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Merc...

Ch. 7 International Trade Why do countries trade? In the modern world, international trade has been one of the two most important economic relationships among ...