Keohane Reading Notes - Summary After Hegemony PDF

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After Hegemony Reading Notes Subject

• GOING TO NEED GOOD DEFINITIONS OF INSTITUTIONS; CONTRAST KEOHANE’S INSTITUTIONS AND BULL’S!!

- This book is about how cooperation has been and can be organised in the world political economy when common interests exist.

- Assumes that mutual interests exist; examines the conditions under which they lead to cooperation

- Focuses on advanced market-economies because common interests are manifold between these states - exist in a state of interdependence

- International politics is anarchic in the sense that it lacks an authoritative government that can enact and enforce rules of behaviour. States must rely on the means they can generate and the arrangements they can make for themselves. Conflict and war result since each state is judge in its own cause and can use force to carry out its judgements. The discord that prevails is accounted for by fundamental conflicts of interest - Waltz view on anarchy

• Keohane says were neorealist views correct any cooperation would be derived from overall patterns of conflict. Institutionalised patterns of cooperation on the basis of shared purposes wouldn’t exist in such a world - we observe extensive patterns of international agreement that such a theory doesn’t account for.

- Keohane also critiques institutionalists! He says they are naive about power and conflict, and they are excessively optimistic about the role of ideals in world politics. They say interdependence is a solvent of conflict and creator of cooperation.

- Both neorealists and institutionalists made the same predictions based on different models; Rs saw US hegemony as underpinning cooperation, and Is saw institutions as facilitating cooperative spill over

- Since 1960s there have been signs of decline in the efficacy of cooperative efforts - as American power eroded so international regimes.

- K postulates whether cooperation can exist after hegemony; After US decline there can be a period of discord and then a more symmetrical cooperative regime can emerge. He begins with realist insights, but his central argument draws from the instituionalist tradition, arguing that cooperation can under certain conditions develop on the basis of complementary interests and that institutions affect the patterns of cooperation that emerge. 1

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- K doesn’t foresee a world where hegemony is likely to emerge again; sees war as a precondition for hegemony.

- Ch 3 examines HST, Ch 4 - He has loads of definitions in the intro, go through and find summaries of what he’s saying about them.

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