Interests: coop relations beyond alliances

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Liberals focus

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reasons for which international actors cooperate and partly implicitly and partly explicitly postulates closer relations among states in order to safeguard peace and welfare.

Question 2

What it does

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It widens the spectrum of relations beyond alliances to enduring partnership, even though processes of integration to suprantaional entities, which takes away autonomy and sovereignty from states (eg. EU)

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motive

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mostly economic ones. States are assumed to engage in integrative schemes if this helps them pursue their interests.

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starting point

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most of Liberal approaches is agency (as opposed to structure), choices, negotiations, and institutions are crucial in their investigations, making plenty of room to diplomacy and in particular to traditional state-to-state diplomacy, although diplomacy is rarely mentionned explicitly

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key variant

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neo-liberal instiutionalism

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neo-liberal institutionalism claims

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states create institutions in order to maximise theu expected utility, Institutions are held to solve collective action problems, notably by reducing transaction costs and making less likely for other parties to cheat

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author and book

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Andrew Moravesik’s Liberal Intergovernmentalism, largely echoing Neo-Liberal Institutionalism, state governments respond to the demands of powerful constituents and are assumed to act selfishly

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integration def

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understood as an evolving process and national governments as its drivers. Nb. More influences by sociological considerations than economic, David Mitrany’s A working peace system is most closely associated with functionalism. Identifying the nation-state as the root cause of war, peace may be ensured through cooperation/integration, with experts as agents

Question 9

shifting of loyalty

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from the nation state to these cooperative entities

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founding text of neo-functionalism

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Ernst Haas’ The uniting of europe, argues that although experts and functional integration play an important role, politics remains in chare of letting cooperation/integration happen

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neo-neofunctionalism

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leaves more room for diplomacy in making nations move clise together. Philippe Schmitter’s Neo-neofunctionalism, beyond functional pressures there are the “opinions and ations of national governments associations and individuals”

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Epistemic communities

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Peter Haas contends that they are made up of staff from national departments, IOs, scientists and other experts share a perspective about how to approach a given political issue. Given ther expert knowledge, they have a certain communicative authority which in turn enables them to play a role in governing this issue area

Question 13

James Rosenau

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distinguished six types of governance, four of which involving encounters of traditional and new diplomats