Summary of six articles on International Relations

In "Explaining Cooperation Under Anarchy: Hypotheses and Strategies," Kenneth A. Oye explains the ways that sovereign nations can agree to cooperate to reach common goals. A nation wants to keep its independence, so even when it might be in its interest to seek a desired goal by working with other nations, it might choose to follow another path just to show that it is independent. Even when a nation makes a "promise" to cooperate, it might change its position simply to remain independent and sovereign.

In international relations, there is no organization with the authority to demand that a sovereign nation cooperate with other nations. This does not mean, however, that no such cooperation takes place: "Though no international sovereign stands ready to enforce the terms of agreement, states can realize common interests through tacit cooperation, formal bilateral and multilateral negotiation, and the creation of international regimes" (1). Oye goes on to explore why cooperation takes place in some cases and not in other cases. This article is an introduction to a book of essays which take the perspective of elementary game theory and microeconomics. The areas covered are international security and economics.

There are three sections in Oye's essay: "Payoff Structures: Mutual and Conflicting Preference"; "Shadow of the Future: Single-play and Iterated Games"; and "Number of Players: Two-Person and N-Person Ga

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ual peace" would be upset by a war against a banned nation. The Abbe argued that the banned nation was threatening the peace of the entire world, so that the nations of the Confederation would have no choice but to take violent steps to stop the banned nation from damaging the peace of the world. Rousseau does say that the Abbe is too idealistic about one point. Rousseau says that the nations are being asked to give up a certain amount of their sovereignty to the Confederation. He asks what the leaders of those nations are to receive in return for that sovereignty they are giving up. The Abbe innocently answers that the leaders of Europe will be paid in terms of having a great reputation as good and wise men who love their people so much that they want to give them a world of peace. Rousseau says that the Abbe's "lofty words may have brought ridicule to the Abbe and his projects, but let us not be mistaken like them about his underlying reasoning" (213). Rousseau is saying that the Abbe was right when he said that it would be in the leaders' self-interest to have a state of perpetual peace in the world. The mistake of such leaders is that the believe that the self-interest of their nations are often in conflict with the self-inte
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