Essays about: "rational actor theory"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words rational actor theory.

1. 1. Reinventing the Middle Kingdom : A case study of Chinese spread of authoritarianism through International Organizations

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Anton Altgård; [2022]
   Keywords : ASEAN; Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank; authoritarianism; Belt and Road Initiative; China; democracy; democratization; democratic backsliding; international organizations; liberalism; one-China Policy; realism; rational actor theory;

   Abstract : The liberal theory of international relations primarily associates international cooperation with liberal democratic states, to the point that a theory of scholars Poast and Urpelainen claim that international cooperation with consolidated democracies through international organizations may boost the democratization of or at least prevent democratic backsliding in non-consolidated democracies. This paper investigates the possibility of decoupling these theories from democracies and democratizing by examining whether Chinese efforts within the framework of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and the Belt and Road foreign policy project have a similar but reverse effect on its target states, prompting developments in authoritarian directions. READ MORE

3. 2. Operation Condor : The U.S. involvement - A rational strategy or a political powerplay?

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

   Author : Amanda Hedman; [2019]
   Keywords : Operation Condor; National Security; Latin America; USA; Foreign Policy;

   Abstract : During 1975-1989 a transnational state-terror operation was carried out by several South American states called Operation Condor. Declassified documents show that the U.S. government assisted the operation with communication and intelligence techniques. READ MORE

4. 3. Emergent Routing Strategies in the Lightning Network

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

   Author : John-John Markstedt; [2019]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : In payment channel networks, such as the Bitcoin native Lightning Network, the routing nodes receive a fee as compensation for displaced liquidity, time value of money and operational costs. Currently this fee is manually set procuring sub optimal profits to the node operator. READ MORE

5. 4. Global Talent Flow as 'Musical Chairs' : Driving Forces of Young Talents:An Examination of Italy and Lithuania

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för organisation och entreprenörskap (OE)

   Author : Jonas Hoerstel; Patrick Jaeger; [2018]
   Keywords : Global Talent Flow; Migration; Mobile Workforce; Push-Pull-Mooring; ERASMUS Programme;

   Abstract : This Master thesis examines the impact of the individual driving forces of young highly educated talents from Italy and Lithuania to apply for a job abroad after the graduation. By investigating the motivations and influences during this decision-making process, we clarify the role of different impulses on the individual’s decision to become part of the phenomenon known as the global talent flow. READ MORE

6. 5. Why the bear kicked the hornet’s nest : Causal processes of Russian foreign policy on Syria

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Sebastian Avenäs; [2017]
   Keywords : Russia; Syria; military intervention; rational choice theory; rational actor model; bounded rationality; process-tracing; causal process;

   Abstract : This paper examines causal mechanisms of the process leading up to the Russian military intervention in Syria that began in September 2015. It aims to concretize the causal processes of three different hypotheses that are based on commonplace assumptions of Russian foreign policy on Syria. READ MORE