Toward a Realist Theory of State Action

Mastanduno, Michael; Lake, David A.; Ikenberry, G. John

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“…Katzenstein (1976) first conceptualized domestic structures in terms of "state strength" and argued that whether or not a country had a strong state and a weak society or a weak society and a strong state was indispensable for an understanding of the commercial, financial, and energy policies of advanced industrialized democracies (see also Krasner, 1978). Mastanduno et al, (1989) also found the state strength concept useful, proposing that weak or "soft" (centralized and constrained) states and strong or "hard" (centralized and autonomous) states will choose different strategies depending on their position in the international structure. Rosecrance and Stein (1993) put a variation of the state strength argument in a strategic or dyadic context.…”

Section: The Constraints Of Weak Statesmentioning

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The domestic politics of international negotiations: The effects of state structures and policy making processes

Kaarbo

2001

International Interactions

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Putnam's metaphor of a two-level game that state representatives play when they face the dual constraints of international bargaining and domestic pressures has been applied across different political systems. This paper argues that it is important to take into account differences in state structures and political processes in the study of international negotiations. That state structures and processes are important has become a common theme in current research on foreign policy, decision making, and international conflict. Building on this literature, this study involves a meta-analysis of existing case studies of two-level games. The previously completed cases provide evidence of variation in the characteristics of two-level games. Independent measures of the institutional structures of the states involved in the set of case studies are collected from the POLITY III dataset. Hypotheses on how differences in state structures might influence the characteristics of two-level bargaining are then examined. The study finds that differences in state structures do influence the dynamics of two-level games. Some of the results support the conventional wisdom on this relationship, while other results suggest counter-intuitive insights. A framework conceptualizing state characteristics at three levels is proposed for future research.

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Section: The Constraints Of Weak Statesmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Domestic politics is now seen as critical for explaining international politics (Ferguson and Mansbach, 1991;Mastanduno et al, 1989;Moravcsik, 1993;Miiller and Risse-Kappen, 1993). In Goldmann's words, "the issue is not whether domestic and international politics are divorced from each other; that they are not is a truism.…”

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The domestic politics of international negotiations: The effects of state structures and policy making processes

Kaarbo

2001

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“…4 On the effect of international and domestic events on institutional change, see Skocpol (1979) and Cortrell and Peterson (1999). 5 For a distinction between resource mobilization (wealth creation) and extraction (consumption of wealth), see the discussion in Mastanduno et al (1989). 6 The literature on structural adjustment and globalization emphasizes the differentiated domestic political consequence of economic liberalization.…”

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The Political Economy of War Mobilization: From Britain's Limited Liability to a Continental Commitment

Lobell

2006

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How does war affect the structure of domestic interests in democratic capitalist states and how are these interests reflected in the conduct of the war? Developing a second image reversed 'plus' argument (outside-in and then inside-out), I contend that war can alter the domestic balance of political power, and can thereby affect the orientation of a state's security strategy. Wars that induce the extraction of wealth and the mobilization of resources will empower a coalition of domestic actors and interest groups who will lobby the government for an offensive security policy, including greater defense spending, military and industrial conscription, state planning and intervention in the economy, and protectionism. I apply this model to Britain and use a research design based on a longitudinal-controlled comparison over the periods of 1912-1914 and 1914-1916 to examine why Britain escalated its involvement in World War I from Limited Liability prior to the outbreak of the war and during the initial years of the war to a Continental Commitment by April of 1916.

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“…Comparable hypotheses and models are found in other "mid-range" theoretical conceptualisations. See Mastanduno, Lake, and Ikenberry (1989), Cha (2000), and Nau (2003), among others. What differentiates this thesis' NCR-based hypotheses with the "two-level-game" or, other mid-range hypotheses adopted by the likes of Bong (2002) and Downs and Saunders (1998/9), are theoretical nuances like: i) its espousal of the primacy of external factors; ii) nationalism's "intervening" role on state-elites' intersubjective perception of the external-domestic conditions; iii) auxiliary assumptions regarding the potential irrationality of state behaviour, iv) ontological positioning of the "external" as environment rather than processbased variables; and v) conceptualisation of analytical framework.…”

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Nationalism and Power Politics in Japan’s Relations with China: A Neoclassical Realist Interpretation

King¹

2013

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Toward a Realist Theory of State Action

Cited by 122 publications

References 62 publications

The domestic politics of international negotiations: The effects of state structures and policy making processes

The domestic politics of international negotiations: The effects of state structures and policy making processes

The Political Economy of War Mobilization: From Britain's Limited Liability to a Continental Commitment

Nationalism and Power Politics in Japan’s Relations with China: A Neoclassical Realist Interpretation

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