SCOA

Question 1

Chris Brown and Kirsten Ainley

Answer 1

• Brown: IR Prof @ London Sch of Econ; Ainley: Asst Prof of IR at London Sch of Econ
• Understanding IR
• WWI broke the paradigm & reinvented IR Theory
• Woodrow Wilson = liberal internatinationalism (aka utopianism or idealism)
• Rational choice theory = goal-directed behavior
• Influence ≠ power
• Revisits Waltz’s images
• War is a normal feature of IR
• Agent vs Structure
• Globalization hurts the US in many ways culturally (e.g. roadside diner going away, but French bistros thrive)

Question 2

Gideon Rose

Answer 2

• How Wars End; editor of Foreign Affiars; served on the NSC during the Clinton Administration; Jewish, BA from Yale, PhD from Havard
• “There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace.”
• Wilson had the most leverage after WWI, but passively chose not to use it

Question 3

Joe Nye the Power Guy

Answer 3

• Perceived power = (population + territory + economy + military) x (strategy + will)
• Smart power
• Generations of warfare: line formations; massed firepower (WWI); manuver; enemy’s society and political will to fight
• War has always been assymetrical
• Paradox of plenty: a lot of information means little attention to it
• “wielding soft power is important, but it is not alwasy easy, particularly in a cyberage.”
• Economic Power is one of the most important tools in smart power.

Question 4

James G. March

Answer 4

• Living; MA & PhD from Yale, Prof emeritus at Stanford
• Individual decision makers vs multiple decision makers
• Limited Rationality
• Contrary to popular belief, higher level managers are more willing to take risks than lower level managers
• Logic of appropriateness: reconition, identity, rules
• Competency traps - falling to our strengths even if it doesn’t make sense
• Wishes near COG = more power, wishes away from COG ≠ less power

Question 5

Victoria Hold and Michael Mackinnon

Answer 5

• Two trends in Clinton & W. Bush admin
  
  • Both came to office with broad, relatively idological politicla believes about peace oeprations, and then changed their minds
  • Both enchanced, if not deeply embraced such missions as an operational tool to serve US interestes
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Question 6

Greg Ip

Answer 6

• 1964 - ; Born in Canada, Asian desent.
• Economist; currently a journalist for the Wall Street Journal
• Wrote: The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World
• Economic growth depends on two factors: population and their productivity
• Globalization and trade is good–hedges strenghts of other countries

Question 7

Diane Kunz

Answer 7

• 1952 - ; lawyer, author, & historian from North Carolina
• Law degree from Cornell, taught at Columbia
• The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis
• UK / FRA expected the US to get involved, but the US didn’t have an economic dog in the fight
• Nasser emerged as the victor by controlling the Suez canal

Question 8

Henry Mintzberg

Answer 8

• 1939- Canadian; MIT
• Discourse about what planning and strategy is
  
  • Strategy is a plan, pattern, or a position
• Strategy formation is a planning process, designed or supported by planners, to plan in order to produce plans.