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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Introduction
A key assumption of this book is that international structures emerge out of the complex interaction among agents. For the purposes of this study, I consider the principal agents to be nation states. To understand how international networks emerge and how they evolve and change, we must have a theory that deals with the following questions:
What factors drive the calculations and choices of individual states?
How do these factors operate in the process of national policy making?
What kind of national choices result from such processes?
What is the system of interactions (Schelling, 1978: 14; Maoz, 1990b: 33–36) that defines how these national choices aggregate into international processes?
This chapter attempts to answer the first three questions. Chapter 5 focuses on the remaining one.
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