David Lake IR Flashcards
US alliances in CW
Anarchic
USSR alliances in CW
Hierarchic
Grand Strategy
How a state thinks it can be the most secure
Capability aggregation model
states enter alliances to build power
Metrocentic theory
Imperial power comes from the center
Systemic theory
Imperial power comes from competition between 2 powers
Peripheral theory
Imperial power comes from peripheral states
Security per Lake
“ability to consume, invest, or otherwise use national power as a polity sees fit”
Guns or butter in IR
Scale of focusing on defense efforts
Anarchy-Hierarchy continuum
Alliance, protectorate, informal empire, empire
Role of contracts
base of relationships, act to self enforce
Alliance
States share resources to work towards a common goal but all have power over residuals
Lakes Assumptions
Rational actors, limited info, security single dimension, stated w/o preferences, external threats, stronger convinces weaker
Decision theory
used instead of game theory to explain dominance of one state over another, “relationship-makers and relationship-takers”
Opportunism reasons
Abandonment, entrapment, risk-taking
