Lecture Outline Theories of Political Integration

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Lecture Outline Theories of Political Integration

• Functionalism
• Neo-Functionalism
• Interdependence
• International Regimes
• Systems Theory
• World Federalism
• Epistemic Communities

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Functionalism

• Cooperation in non-political areas
• build
• habits of interaction
• spill over effect
• Cooperation in the political areas

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Neofunctionalism

• Cooperation in Political Matters
• Spill Over
• Nation-state Spill Round Federation
• Spill Back

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Interdependence

• By Challenging 3 Premises of Realism
• 1. States as coherent units are the dominant
  actors in world politis
• Multiple Channels Connect Societies
• 2. Force is a usable and effective instrument of
  policy
• Military Force is not employed btw. Govts that
  locate in the same region or issue area
• 3. There is a hierarchy of issues in world
  politics
• There is not an hierarchy of issues in the agenda
  of interstate relations

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International Regime Theory

• What is Regime?
• What is International Regime

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International Regime Theory

• Regime
• International regimes are defined as
• principles
• norms
• rules
• decision-making processes
• around which actor expectations converge
• in a given issue area.

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International Regime Theory

• Principles Fundamental
• Norms role
• Rules Subsidiary
• decision-making role
• processes

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International Regime Theory

• Principles Framework
• Norms
• Rules Details
• decision-making Content
• processes

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International Regime Theory

• Changes in Changes
• Principles OF the regime
• Norms
• Rules WITHIN
• Decision-making the regime
• processes

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Importance of Regimes

• Constrain and regularize the behavior of the
  participants
• Affect which issues among protoganists move on
  and off agendas
• Determine which activities are legitimized or
  condemned
• Influence, whether, when and how conflicts are
  resolved

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Systems Theory

• What is a system?

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Systems Theory

• System
• A set of interrelated entities and their
  interrelationships
• Qualifications of a system
• boundaries which distingusih it from its
  operating environment
• a communications net which permits the flow of
  information
• inputs and outputs

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Systems Theory

• A harmonic outlook to social reality
• International politics can be studied as the
  human body
• There are many organs interacting functionally
  and in harmony
• Each and every state has different but
  complementary roles (as human body)

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Systems Theory

• For instance Morton Kaplan
• His Six Alternative Systems
• balance-of-power system
• a loose bipolar system
• a tight bipolar system
• a universal international system
• a hierarchial international system
• a unit-veto system