Chapter 2 - Understanding interests, interactions and institutions Flashcards
Actors
The basic unit for analysis of international systems - can be individuals or groups with common interests
State
A central authority with the ability to make and enforce laws, rules and decisions within a specified territory.
Anarchy
The absence of a central authority with the ability to make and enforce rules that enforce all actors.
Coordination
A type of cooperation in which actors benefit from all making the same choices and have no incentive to not comply.
Collaboration
A type of cooperation in which actors gain from working together but have incentives to not comply with any agreement.
Public goods
Products that are nonexcludable and nonrival in consumption such as national defense.
Collective action problems
Obstacles of cooperation that occur when actors have incentives to collaborate but each acts in anticipation that others will pay the costs of cooperation.
Free ride
Fail to contribute to a public good while benefiting from the contributions of others
Iteration
Repeated interactions with the same partners
Linkage
Linking cooperation on one issue to interactions on a second issue
Power
The ability of actor A to get actor B to do something that actor B would otherwise not do
Coercion
A strategy of imposing or threatening to impose costs in order to induce a change in behavior.
Outside options
The alternatives to bargaining with a specific actor.
Agenda setting
A “first move” advantage that helps an actor to secure a more favorable bargain.
Affecting cooperation
Setting standards of behavior
Verifying compliance
Reducing the cost of joint decision making
Resolving disputes
