POLSCI 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Warsaw Pact, Free Rider Problem, Bargaining

• School: U of M
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 160
• Professor: Barbara Koremenos

Document Summary

This chapter focuses on how international institutions affect the interactions between states as they try to cooperate to prevent or stop conflict. Alliances might be better at continuing the status quo; alliances want to deter violent conflict to preserve the status quo. Collective security (un) tends to help shorten the length and solves the commitment to the peace; peacekeeping. Alliances and collective security organizations both influence whether or not outsiders will intervene in the event of war. They play a role in the process of bargaining before the onset of conflict and the bargaining that seeks to end conflict once it has begun. Want it to be known that attacking 1 state involves the others. Alliances are commitments by states to cooperate on security policy. They form when states have compatible interests in military cooperation. Alliances specify how their members will come to one another"s assistance and under what conditions.