Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Immaterial Factors in International Politics and
Geopolitics: The Impact of Identity
- REALISM
- Prisoners Dilemma
- Cost vs benefits
- Rat's choice
assumption
- Humans act rationally because it is the smartest thing to do
- Are States rational?
- Material aspects of power
- You can mesure them
- YES
- NEO-REALISM
- The problem of
international
institutions
- They exists
because states
want them to exist
- Powerful states
- Fill the gap of
the Prisoners
Dilemma
- The parts have access to each other and to information
- Way to monitor the other countris
- Limit costs by
sharing the burden
with others
- Way to build up trust
- Also based on Rat's choice
- All states want survival
- World of black boxes
- The only difference
between them is power
- Anarchic world
- SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM
- Reality is the result of an interaction
- Agent
- Structures/ Context
- Both constants are
always undergoing
change
- Anarchy also changes
Anmerkungen:
- Read: The Social Construction of the International System
- 3 TYPES
- Hobbesian type of anarchy
- States compete with one
another in a "state of
nature"
- Locke's anarqy
- Common rules that
regulate some aspects of
reality
- States collaborate only in some things
- Kantian anarchy
- States not only
collaborate but have
common norms
- Bounded Rationality
- Depends on the kind of interaction you have with reality