Liberal Institutionalism Flashcards
How did Functionalists refute Realisms view of the World
Functionalists: States are not central to world politics. Its labour unions, political parties, and supra-nationalists. Therefore leading to transnational coalitions.
States are becoming less concerned about power and security. Nuclear weapons made war costly. States therefore don’t view each other as enemies but instead partners.
They are so. pessimistic, IR is a positive/ negitiv sum game.
How do Neo - Liberal institutionalists view the world
1) states are in anarchy and face mixed interests.
2) This can be depicted by prisoners Dilemma. The preference order is DC>CC>DD>CD. This result in each states defecting irrespective of what id expects the other to do.
3) However Neo-Liberals argue that if the game is highly iterative then co-operation is more likely to occur. States use tit-for-tat, grim trigger strategies. They say states are most concerned with cheating NOT relative gains.
4) IO’s help reduce verification, create interactiveness, and reduce sanctioning costs.
