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Title: Theories in International Relations: Neo-Liberalism


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Theories in International Relations
Neo-Liberalism
  • Keohane, After Hegemony
  • Axelrod and Keohane, Achieving Cooperation under
    Anarchy Strategies and Institutions
  • Conceptualization of the international system
  • International regimes concept
  • Foreign policy formulation

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Conceptualization of the international system
  • Assumptions
  • - International environment is anarchical
  • - States are the most significant actors in the
    international system and the non-state actors are
    subordinated to them
  • Problem how to initiate and maintain cooperation
    under conditions of anarchy
  • International regimes/ international institutions
    thesis Neo-Liberalism accounts for the process
    of achieving sustained patterns of cooperation
    under anarchy
  • Why do states choose to set up regimes
  • - reduce transaction cost
  • - increase security

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International regimes concept
  • Definition set of rules, norms and procedures
    around which expectations converge these apply
    to a concrete issue area vary in terms of scope
    and depth
  • How do the regimes mitigate anarchy
  • alter the payoff structures facing actors
    lengthen the shadow of the future N-person games
    are broken down into games with smaller number of
    actors (Axelrod and Keohane, 1985)
  • reducing the political market failures in terms
    of information, enforcement (making defection
    from norms easier to punish) and monitoring
    (Ruggie, 1998)
  • Typology of the international and transnational
    organizations
  • membership universal and regional
    intergovernmental, supranational and
    transnational
  • Goals specific and general

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Foreign policy formulation
  • National preferences and interests
  • domestic politics
  • process of learning
  • International institutions and bargaining
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