Assignment task: Answer the following questions based on the essay question:
Question 1: What steps would you take to produce a baseline assessment? What are the advantages and disadvantages of just analyzing material power and role expectations? With this question we need to: Justify each stage of our approach with reference to the following academic literature and examples of possible evidence you might use. For example:
What do you think about the arguments made by these sources and how has this influenced your response/ answer to this question?
E.G. "I am not going to use the perfect information assumption because I was persuaded by Fearon (1995) argument that rational states have incentives to hide their capabilities."
So for this question how would I conduct a baseline assessment and justify these incorporate these sources as part of my justification.
Explain your justifications for the baseline assessment using examples and the sources below.
What do these sources argue about material power/role expectations/rationality? How can I include this in this essay?
Reference:
1. Thies, Cameron (2012) "International Socialization Processes vs. Israeli National Role Conceptions: Can Role Theory Integrate IR Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis?", Foreign Policy Analysis 8(1): 25-46.
2. Telhami, Shibley (2002) "Kenneth Waltz, Neorealism and Foreign Policy", Security Studies 11(3): 158-170.
3. Wehner, Leslie (2015) "Role expectations as foreign policy: South American secondary powers' expectations of Brazil as a regional power", Foreign Policy Analysis 11(4): 435-455.
4. Fearon, James (1995) "Rationalist explanations for war", International Organization 49(3): 379-414.
5. Oneal, John (1988) "The Rationality of Decision Making During International Crises", Polity 20(4): 598-622.
6. Simon, Herbert (1991) "Bounded rationality and organizational learning", Organization Science 2(1): 125-134.