POL SCI 20 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Security Dilemma, Pareto Efficiency, Zero-Sum Game
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Actors cooperate to get closer to the pareto frontier. Once on the frontier, it is bargaining, not cooperation. States have a security dilemma, where all states are threats. If other states get more powerful, then they have to attack them to maintain balance. Each state is self-interested, and the international systems are not viable options to keeping nations in check. A way to fix incomplete information is to have international institutions that. Indivisible goods: too much value such as jerusalem cause nations to be more transparent regarding their capabilities and motivations. Iraq was a big source of oil for the united states. The fact that national interests and interest groups can shape policy. The united states protects its nationalists" interests, such as big oil. We invaded iraq partly because it would give the united states an advantage economically, and if we didn"t interject then other nations would capitalize.
