International Organisations The international world that we live in, has multiple issues that link states with each other ->motivation to form coalitions internationally, as states form large number of treaties and arrangement, to deal with these issues as one. ->Explained as permanent institutions of conference, where states exchange crucial information and make vital decisions on state action. ->This includes organising and informing others of their national political strategies. ->States invent IO to prevent state conflict and promote peace by forming alliances. They both agree, on the possibility that states will letting a more powerful state take responsibility, since a more powerful state will be less likely to exit from cooperation. . After the aftermath of the Cold War, states were forced to find rapid solution to prevent future world confrontations. · Member states are the primary actors · States give IO sovereignty or share it · International organisations help states to overcome: financial failures, collective action problems or interdependent problems · 10 also act as a starting point for a coalition-formation and as grounds for a political action, with the means to form links between states · Solutions to problems of a high cost that one state cannot handle alone. · UN are: to maintain peace and international security, promote respect for fundamental human rights, unite to solve international problems and defend international law · states have hardly any motivation to enter in international arrangements, as they feel that they will always have the freedom to exit from any organisation Neo-realism · concerned about making 'relative gains' · improving the state's position relative or compared to other states . This has been taken, from the concept that anarchy can make states fear their chances of survival, against another more powerful state · States willing to cooperate, form an IO bring relative gains · IOs and hegemony states have close similarities, hegemonic states just as IOs share the same values, as they allow other states to make relative gains, as long as they make absolute gains at the same time. · Worry about relative gains stop states from cooperating and taking advantages . that if states realise that the cost of fighting with a potential enemy is effectively low, then states no longer see the need to cooperate and aid each other financially · exist purely due to competitive environments . States form coalitions to be aware of the other states ambitions as they reach for a balance of power. · cooperate, if there is a dominating state that is willing to take charge and bear most of the cooperation costs · power politics operates international organisations.
Waltz fiff959:ff98) agrees, that states are more concerned about their relative gains than absolute gains, as he believes that in the revolution of international politics, flrelative gain is more important than absolute gainfl For this reason, states consider that gaining power is a way to survive. IO will enable them to keep control over their position in international power Neo-liberalism · Concentrate on making