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With the advent of political economy (see Chapter 13) in the 1970s, political science sees a fusing of the disciplines of political science and economics. Suddenly, research techniques from both disciplines are available to the researcher, one of them being rational choice theory. Political scientists use rational choice theory to explain human behavior and also state behavior. The theory is fairly simple: People and countries will, based on the information they have at the time, engage in actions from which they benefit the most. At the same time, they’ll also engage in actions from which they’ll lose the least. Quite simply, people, such as politicians and even countries, will do what is best for them and what will cause the least damage to them.