PSCI 2223 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sovereign People, Collective Action
3 Jan 2016
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Interests are the fundamental building blocks of politics. Explanations of international political events begin by specifying the relevant actors and their interests. Cooperation is a type of interaction involving two or more actors working together to achieve a preferred outcome. Successful cooperation depends on the number and relative sizes of actors involved, the number of interactions among the actors, and the accuracy of the information they process. An interaction in which two or more actors adopt policies that make at least one actor better off relative to the status quo without making others worse off. Bargaining is a type of interaction involving the distribution of a fixed value. That is, if one actor gets more , someone else necessarily gets less . In bargaining, outcomes depend on what will happen in the event that no agreement is reached. Actors derive power from their ability to make the consequences of no agreement less attractive for the other side.
