1. Chap 2 - Tools to Analyze Decision Making
What will happen? Pp. 56-7

2. System Level “Top Down”
Who makes the decisions?
States
IGO’s
Transnationals
NGO’s
MNC’s
Non-state
Scope and frequency of interaction

3. Power Distribution: unipolar, multi, bi Concentration vs. security
Stability vs. security

4. Economics Resource Distribution Mal-distribution of Development
Economic Justice vs. free market

5. States States are independent, rational, and predictable
What shapes decisions?
events or people?
different political structures and cultures?
Domestic issues or global power?

6. Decisionmakers Executives Bureaucracy Legislature “The People”
Advise, omit, implement
Legislature
Political opposition
“The People”
Interest groups, lobbies

7. Individuals and IR Cognition is discoverable?
Psychology is discoverable?
Ego
experience
Biology?
Gender