POLI 244 Study Guide - Final Guide: Geoffrey Blainey, Incrementalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 244
• Professor: Jason Scott Ferrell

Document Summary

Fearon: bargaining theory of war, war is costly it"s an inefficient way of solving disputes, need a negotiating point acceptable to both parties, destroys resources that could be distribute elsewhere, more efficiently, negotiated settlement mutually preferable to war, war settles this issue. Sources of institutional problems: no impact, controlled by hegemons, controlled by private interests, not internally accountable, need to figure out the actual effects of international institutions, instead of debates about whether they are autonomous agents (1) we need more empirical analyses of these institutions and their impact on the poor countries, (2) these institutions need reform, and (3) systematic proposals for their reform can be usefully derived from a combination of normative and empirical analysis. Incomplete information: commitment problems, different strategies, coerce policy change through unacceptable costs, provoke government into disproportionate response alienate population, outbidding, attacks, public, dumb weapons.