Two-level game theory

Robert Putnam articulates the two-level game theory. In liberal democracies, international agreements are the product of negotiations at both the national and internaitonal level. Over domestic negotiations, the executive absrobs the concern of societial actors and builds coalitions with them; at the international level, the executive tries to implement these concerns without committing to anything that will have deleterious effects @ home. Win-sets occur when the concerns of actors at both levels overlap, a condition under which an internaitonal agreement is likely.