POLS 4730 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Security Dilemma, Philosophical Realism, Neoliberalism
23 Jul 2018
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Chapter 1: international relations theory and the middle east page #21-38: Instead of examining crucial features of the irresolvable paradoxes that states face when they deal with one another in an anarchic environment, middle east scholars generally use security dilemma" as a synonym for. Security problem" or security challenge": even though the security dilemma tends to spark arms races and aggravates mistrust and antagonism. International governance structures have been analyzed somewhat differently by scholars who apply the concept of relational contracting, drawn from neo-classical economics. In other words, most observers consider pan-arabism to be a cardinal principle of middle eastern diplomacy and claim that the drive toward arab unity contradicts the conventions of westphialian sovereignty. Constructivism, post-structuralism, and post-modernism: perhaps the most energetic research programme in the field of international relations over the past decade involves constructivist theory. Internal instability gives the state that is challenging the status quo an incentive to mobilize its populace for war.
