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In practice, states have two options in designing foreign policy: counterbalance and alignment. Russia follows both strategies in relation with different foreign actors. Offensivity characterizes Russia’s relations with Moldova and Ukraine, where energetic and military ascendancy allows it to...
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Realists argue that relative gains concerns make cooperation more difficult than liberal institutionalists expect. In response, Duncan Snidal has argued that when the number of states increases, the problem of relative gains concerns is generally attenuated. The author contends that current...
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Political philosophy relies on three alternative types of theory to explain social order. The first, is order anarchy …
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situations that persons who rely on those institutions confront in their attempts to protect property rights without government …
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How do the members of societies that can’t use government or simple ostracism produce social order? To investigate this … where government is unavailable and simple ostracism is ineffective. According to Gypsy law, unguarded contact with the … social cooperation without government. Gypsies’ belief system is an efficient institutional response to the constraints they …
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themes' in his corpus-anarchy, contract, constitution, Pareto optimality, 'public choice' and so on. In doing so, we … investigate a number of tensions in Buchanan's conception-between a libertarian affinity with anarchy and constitutional …
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for either approach, as well as anarchy, and show that interventionism exponentially reduces the number of possibilities …
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Violent conflict destroys resources. It generates “destruction costs.” These costs have an important effect on individuals’ decisions to cooperate or conflict. We develop two models of conflict: one in which conflict's destruction costs are independent of individuals’ investments in...
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