POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: James N. Rosenau, Liberal Democracy, Complex Interdependence
5 Dec 2017
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Has been the dominant stream in early ir and came back after ww2 / in 70s. A conviction that ir can be cooperative and that the anarchy can be overcome. A belief in progress (technological, political, economic) Focuses on the individual and its well-being. Ir can be explained through polarity (materialism) State preferences are based on domestic policy. The primary actors are societal actors and transnational actors; states are not actors but mere representatives, constantly subject to capture and recapture by coalitions of societal actors. Opens up the black box and tries to explain what the incentives of a state are before trying to assess its actions. First, they define the preferences / interests of a state, then its behavior. The two-stage model is also a two-level game, because it assumes that state leaders account for domestic win-sets when they do diplomacy and the other way round.
