skip to main content
Idioma:
Primo Search
Clear Search Box
Search in: Busca Geral
Busca Avançada
Busca por Índices

Stability and Change

Gilpin, Robert

War and Change in World Politics, 1981, p.50-105

United States: Cambridge University Press

Sem texto completo

Citações Citado por
  • Título:
    Stability and Change
  • Autor: Gilpin, Robert
  • Assuntos: International relations
  • É parte de: War and Change in World Politics, 1981, p.50-105
  • Descrição: Assumption 1. An international system is stable (i.e., in a state of equilibrium) if no state believes it profitable to attempt to change the system.Assumption 2. A state will attempt to change the international system if the expected benefits exceed the expected costs (i.e., if there is an expected net gain).The argument of this chapter is that states make cost/benefit calculations in the determination of foreign policy and that a goal of a state's foreign policy is to change the international system in ways that will enhance the state''s own interests. Whether these interests are power and security (as political realists argue), capitalistic profits (as Marxists allege), or welfare gains (as many contemporary theorists contend), every state desires to increase its control over those aspects of the international system that make its basic values and interests more secure.However, although a group or state may desire to change the international system in order to advance its interests, the effort to do so necessarily involves costs; the group or state not only must have sufficient resources to meet these costs but also must be willing to pay such costs. Therefore, a group or state will attempt to change the system only if the expected benefits exceed the expected costs; that is, there must be an expected net gain. To put it another way, the group or state will seek to change the system only if it is believed that such change will be profitable (Davis and North, 1971, p. 40).
  • Editor: United States: Cambridge University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
Voltar para lista de resultados
Ir para página anteriorAnterior Resultado  10 AvançarIr para próxima página

  • Realização: ABCD-USP USP   Logos de Redes Sociais: Freepik

Buscando em bases de dados remotas. Favor aguardar.