SUST 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Absolute Advantage, Ottoman Empire, Islamism

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Sustainability
• Course: SUST 2001
• Professor: Andrew Bergel

Document Summary

Lecture 4: game theory normal form review and. Nash: you base your choices off of what your opponent will due. Realists and liberals would say you could get to both remaining silence if there"s trust. Everyone goes for what is in their best interest. But what if you"re looking for absolute advantage. Outlier as if someone has significantly less power, they may always swerve. Normal form to extensive form: prisoner"s dilemma and. Nash theory: if you reach a cooperative state, it is likely to continue as there is trust developed. Realists think trust will eventually be broken and is then hard to re- establish. Us helped to design, but then didn"t sign. Us was upset that ldcs weren"t being asked to cut carbon emissions. Different depending on the discipline: economics vs. sociology. Posits that the traditional ir theory is euro-centric. Attempts to dispel predominate romantic assumptions as parochial - the west/north"s view that it must save and help.