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As a field of study, International Relations seeks to explain the behavior of individual nations within a complex and dynamic system of interdependence on a global scale. Within this system of interdependence, lies the collective goods problem. The collective goods problem is the problem of how to provide something that benefits all members of a group regardless of what each member contributes to it (Goldstein and Pevehouse 2009, 3). While the degree of interdependence varies within individual nations, the collective goods problem still remains at the core of all dilemmas facing the international community. This is fundamentally true in International Relations because the international community lacks one central authority. Three main principles can explain the behavior of an individual nation and how that nation may approach the collective goods problem. The principle of dominance may help to examine the role of power and structural hierarchy that exists in many forms in the......

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