POLS Week 5 Policy Memo Consultation and Constructivism

Policy Memo
 800 words, reference per 150 words
 Check which referencing style
 Follow the questions, don’t talk about how effective the IO has been
 Look at mandates and mission statements- can infer cooperation problems that
existed before the IO’s creation

ICO Policy Memo Practice Activity

Fundamental Problems of Cooperation being faced by members of ICO (look at mandate
and mission statements)
 Climate change and cooperation issues
 Lack of information available on mechanisms to improve issues
 Long term sustainability- maintaining and financing
 Economic competition- advantageous in short run to keep bad trade practices
 Trade tariffs and protective practices to bulk up own economy
Characteristics of Issue Area (why the IO was created)
 Businesses
 Usable/arable land
 Climate
 Developing nations
 Demand from developed nations with supply going down
Gains from Cooperation
 Shared information
 Reduced transaction costs- shared costs of RR
 Promotes overall sustainability of industry
 Continued existence of issue area
Losses from Cooperation
 Positive transaction costs due to sharing
 If one nation dominates, it needs to share information with other states- potential
loss of market share due to “holding back” and following shared rules and norms
NLI Mechanisms (see Week 3 slides)- which ones have been identified in ICO
(What problems exist, what are the functions to solve, how it uses these functions to
solve these problems)
 Extend shadow of the future (Iteration and repeated interaction, Monitoring and
enforcement)
o Via study groups and forecasts, tech surveys, it identifies available arable
land and how it will reduce if no steps are taken to combat issues like climate
change
o Brings forward the problems of tomorrow
 Provide information
 Lower transaction costs
o ICO shares information- shares innovative projects
 Provide Issue linkage
Tutorial Questions Week 5
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