POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hegemony, Security Dilemma, Buck Passing
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Poli 260: week 4 - the balance of power. !-next week(cid:1932)s tutorial: reading on vista (week 5). !-we will analyze this using wwi and wwii. Outer layer of onion: under anarchy, there is always a commitment problem (there is no central authority that can enforce agreements, hence states have reason to act). !-threatening with force a high cost to avoid someone doing something. States won(cid:1932)t attack if cost of war exceeds benefits. !-you don(cid:1932)t want to lower benefits of conquest. !-compellence: the threat of the use of force to get tanya to do something she. In the latter case, the pretensions of the most aggressive member of the international community are kept in check by a combination of the others; in other words (pg. This brings us to: the balance of power. Remember: states seek to be a hegemon to ensure survival. Who prevents this (remember: anarchy = commitment problem?)
