POLI 244 Chapter Notes - Chapter p5-49: Mikhail Gorbachev, Market Failure, Collective Security
28 Oct 2015
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The false promise of international institutions john j. mearsheimer. Since the cold war, western policymakers have sought to create security arrangements in europe + other regions around the globe international institutions. Reject balance of power politics (idea that national security is enhanced when military capabilities are distributed so that no one state is strong enough to dominate all other) Realists maintain that institutions are a reflection of the distribution of power in the world based on self-interested calculations of the great powers have no independent effect on state behaviour. Realists believe institutions are not an important cause of peace. Institutionalists argue that institutions can alter state preferences and change state behaviour. Institutions can discourage states from calculating self- interest on the basis of how every move affects their relative power positions. Institutions are independent variables, and they have the capability to move states away from war. Recognized patterns of behaviour or practice around which expectations converge".
