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Title: Game theory of war and democracy


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Game theory of war and democracy
  • introduction

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Key issues of comparative politics
  • How does political order arise from anarchy? What
    is the role of civil war?
  • What makes and keeps a democracy stable.
  • What makes democratic transitions possible
  • The threat of revolution
  • the threat repression.
  • How do elections keep politicians accountable?

3
Key issues of international relations
  • Why do states fight war even though war is costly
    and they both prefer a peaceful solution?
  • What accounts for peace?
  • Do nuclear weapons make war more or less likely?
  • How can we help prevent the dissemination of
    nuclear weapons and other WMD?

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Game theory is the modeling of interaction
between rational individuals
  • instrumental rationality.
  • Interaction each player tries to anticipate what
    the other is thinking in order to select a course
    of action.
  • Modeling formal logic is the basis for
    cumulative learning.

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Game theory helps us think beyond existing answers
  • Examples
  • Hobbes idea that war is a feature of the state
    of nature.
  • The idea
  • that nuclear weapons make the world safer
  • that economic sanctions do not work
  • democracy is more efficient than tyranny
  • democratic stability requires a democratic
    culture.

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Four families of models
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