Principles of international politics : people's power, preferences, and perceptions

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Principles of international politics : people's power, preferences, and perceptions

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

CQ Press, c2003

2nd ed

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 625-646) and index

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The only introductory text that offers students real world skills for real world issues Leaders want to stay in power. In fact, decision makers regularly forego sincerely held beliefs rather than risk losing their jobs. This self-interest is the decisive motivation for action in the international arena and forms the theoretical backbone for this distinct, exciting departure from other introductory texts. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has now enhanced and improved this exciting text's coverage and conceptual focus, while revising and updating chapters to make Principles even more accessible to students. In addition to important new coverage of international political economy, law, organisations, and international political history, the second edition is even better organised, and contains more user-friendly explanations of technical material, as well as a host of new examples drawn from current world events. Student Workbook: Applying the Strategic Perspective Problems and Models, Second Edition Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and D. Scott Bennett This useful workbook has been redesigned and refocused specifically to help students understand the game theoretic and other technical concepts that structure the strategic perspective. Matching Principles chapter by chapter, students work through problem sets to apply what they've learned. With new material adapted from the textbook, novice students will hone their problem-solving skills, whilst more advanced students have the opportunity to test their capabilities with challenging material. 1-56802-775-3 paperback GBP9.99190 X 235mm 133 pages 2003 Special Offer! Buy the text and workbook shrink-wrapped together at the special price of GBP34.99 Order using ISBN: 1-56802-794-X Ancillaries - Free to adopters! 1. Solutions manual - containing all the answer to the workbook's problems and exercises 2. Instructor's CD-ROM with test bank and PowerPoint slides - over 450 test items - multiple-choice questions, true/false statements, as well as essay questions. With CQP Test Writer, instructors can create multiple forms of a test to prevent cheating, print out matching answer keys, and customize questions to meet individual needs. PowerPoint slides highlight key concepts and provide a spring board for Bruce

Table of Contents

  • Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Foundations of International Politics Governing Principles
  • Organizational Features of this Book
  • The Core Concerns of International Relations
  • Solving International Relations Puzzles
  • Summary
  • Suggested Reading 1. Modern Political History and International Politics The Fourteen Hundreds
  • The Fifteen Hundreds
  • The Sixteen Hundreds
  • The Seventeen Hundreds
  • The Eighteen Hundreds
  • The Twentieth Century 2. Evaluating Arguments about International Politics Theories as Simplifications of Reality
  • Judging Theories
  • The First Principle of Wing-Walking
  • The Case Study Method and Testing Theories
  • A Standard for Comparing Theories
  • Why Do We Need Theories?
  • Guidelines for Evaluating Arguments and Evidence: The Scientific Method
  • When a Theory Is Wrong
  • Scientific Theory Must Be Falsifiable
  • Summary3. Christopher Columbus and International RelationsColumbus's Proposal, or Ferdinand and Isabella's Ambition
  • Factors that Shape Foreign Policy Choices
  • Discovering America: An Evaluation of Political Economy and National Security
  • Lessons Suggested by Columbus's Experience
  • Tools and Solutions: An Illustration of the Use of Decision Theory in the Study of International Relations
  • Game Theory, or Why People Sometimes Choose What They Do Not Like Best
  • Summary4. International Politics from a Structural PerspectiveEvaluating Alternative Principles
  • Defining the Puzzles of Cooperation and Conflict
  • Structural Perspectives
  • Summary5. International Politics from Group and Decision-Making Perspectives Organizational Roles in Foreign Policy
  • Principle-Agent Problems
  • Standard Operating Procedures
  • Strategic Perspective
  • Comparing the Core Perspectives
  • The Three Perspectives Illustratively Applied to Columbus
  • Summary6. Domestic Politics and International Interactions: The Central Units of Analysis The Origins of the State
  • International Relations Without the State
  • Domestic Politics as an Alternative to the State
  • Can Domestic Politics Affect Definition of the National Interest?
  • End of the Cold War: Win Sets as a Tool for Understanding Policy
  • Alternative Interpretations of theDomestic Politics Example
  • Summary7. What Is Power? Defining Power
  • Methods of Exercising Power
  • Measuring Power
  • The Fungibility of Power
  • Projecting Power over Larger Distances
  • Summary 8. Limits to Power Power and Military Victory
  • Power Can Be Cyclical
  • Coordination and Power
  • Distribution Problems, Coordination Problems, and Power
  • Power and Motivation
  • Asymmetric Motivation and Costs
  • The Exercise of Power
  • Summary9. Preferences in International PoliticsPreferred Values and American Foreign Policy: An Illustration
  • What Are Preferences?
  • Rationality and Preferences
  • Preferences and Constrained Choices
  • Vending Machines, Preferences, and Decisions
  • Constrained Choice in International Relations: Some Examples
  • Social Choice Problems: Is There a National Interest?
  • Common Circumstances Without the Social Choice Problem
  • Summary10. Perceptions in International Affairs Perceptions and Reality
  • Perceptions and Trade Sanctions: An Illustration
  • The Trade-Sanctioning Game
  • The Sanctioning Game and Domestic Politics
  • Perception, Repetition, and Reputation
  • Summary11. Perceptions, Deterrence, and TerrorismPerceptions and Deterrence
  • North Korea's Artful Use of Misconduct
  • Perceptions and Deterrence: The Gulf War
  • Beliefs about Terrorism
  • Summary12. Domestic Institutions and National PerformanceUniversal Political Institutions
  • Tools to Remain in Power
  • Winning Coalition Size and Trade Policy
  • explanations of the technical material, and recommendations Evidence: Winning Coalition Size and Economic Performance
  • for discussionquestions. New to this edition, users will also Winning Coalition Size and National Survival
  • Domestic find detailed commentaries on many core concepts, from Institutions and Foreign Aid
  • Summary13. The International Bayes' Rule to Banks' Monotonicity. Each entry provides Political Economy of TradeGlobalization in Historical greater background information to help instructors explain the Perspective
  • An Economics Primer: Comparative Advantage, material in the textbook, gives them clear real-world examples Supply, and Demand
  • Trade as a Public or Private Good
  • to work with, and recommends class-tested strategies to take Currency, Exchange Rates, and International Political Economy
  • the material further when students are ready.- Graphics from Political Economy and Trade
  • Factors of Production
  • Mobility of the Text and Workbook - All the tables and figures from both Factors of Production
  • The Consequences of Free Trade: Some the text and workbook are available for downloading in either Evidence
  • Summary14. International Organizations and.pdf format or as PowerPoint slides. These easy to use International LawInternational Law, Organizations, and graphics allow instructors to walk students through conceptual Regimes: Definitions and Distinctions
  • Can We Evaluate the material during lectures or in discussion sections.- Selected Effects of International Regimes?
  • Sovereignty: A Successful Syllabi - Instructors can view an assortment of syllabi to see International Institution
  • The Purpose of International Rules and how Principles is used in a variety of ways and at a range of Institutions
  • How Inclusive Should an International Regime Be?
  • colleges and universities. Organizational Decision-Making Rules
  • Compliance and Effectiveness
  • Summary15. AlliancesWhat Is a Military Alliance?
  • The Purpose of Alliances
  • When Are Alliances Reliable?
  • Predicting the Reliability of Alliances
  • Alliances, Coordination, and Competition
  • Conflict among Allies
  • Summary 16. The Causes of War: Structural AccountsRealist Theories of War
  • How Well Does Neorealism Do in Explaining War and Instability?
  • History and Neorealist Empirical Claims
  • Other Neorealist Hypotheses and the Historical Record
  • The Power Transition: A Structural Alternative to Neorealism17. Strategic Theories of WarThe International Interaction Game and War
  • Arms Races, Deterrence, and War
  • Other Hypotheses about War
  • Summary18. A Predicative Model of International AffairsLogical Foundation of the Model
  • Perceptual Analysis
  • Estimating the Model
  • Why Does this Model Help?
  • Intuition Behind the Model's Dynamics
  • Developing the Data
  • Model Output
  • Prediction and International Relations
  • Using the ModelGlossary of Key Terms
  • Bibliography
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index

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