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Cooperation
is cooperation itself a global public good?
or just its fruits?
public goods are non-rivalrous and non-excludable (ideally)
large n problem = as participants increase, fraction of benefit decrease.
- solution of great-power multilateralism
k group = "critical mass" of leadership circle to impose a solution
but is k # of countries or count of power? probably the latter
"go it alone power" and "blocking power"
"technology of supply"
- technique of supply
- how something is created
adative technology of supply
- "every little bit helps"
- more difficult for large powers to block
- US land mine treaty?
"weakest link theory"
- the way in which a public good is provided may be a function of the least contributing member
- "bad rules drive out good"?
- epidemiological implications
= strategy: transfer resrouces to least-contributing players (Clausewitzian?)
"best shot strategy"
- opposite of weakest link theory
- hegemonic strategy
- example: how to defend against a very large alien warship
14:45 Posted by Dan tdaxp in UNL / International Politics | Permalink | Comments (5) | Email this
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Ah, tdaxp is back.... ;o)
Posted by: mark safranski | Friday, October 14, 2005
I thought this was pretty good.
Now you need to flesh it out with examples!
Posted by: Curtis Gale Weeks | Friday, October 14, 2005
Mark,
Thanks for the concern! tdaxp must be getting bigger -- this was also the first outage that generated private emails. :) Is there such a market for poorly-written class notes???!!!???
As I wrote on SimonWorld, the cause appears to be a DDOS attacks. My administration panel is still down, but at least pages and comments work! (http://simonworld.mu.nu/archives/126206.php)
Curtis,
This definitely was the best IR class in a while. It was an enjoyable time, and gave me several blogging ideas (if only there was time......)
Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Friday, October 14, 2005
Is there such a market for poorly-written class notes???!!!???
The Blogosphere has become my substitute university.
Posted by: Curtis Gale Weeks | Friday, October 14, 2005
Curtis,
Same here. Both informally through blogs (from places like ZenPundit) and formally through sites (like MIT's OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html), the internet empowers individuals like never before. The amount of information, data plus analysis, is staggering. It's possible to get lost, but it is also possible to find so much.
More than ever before, learning is up to the individual. Good.
Posted by: Dan tdaxp | Friday, October 14, 2005