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Student guide · PDFTrouble in Common / International Relations
The Next Move
When does hiding a site pay?
Send Vela’s inspection order, then rewind the first and last meetings to see tit-for-tat at work. Compare two agreements, test a tariff fine, and apply your reasoning to a historical treaty.
Created by Yoav Duman
- Format
- Solo strategy simulation
- Time to plan
- 60–75 min
- What you produce
- A class report with a replay log, draft decisions, tariff choices, and five written responses
Play the simulation
The game includes payoff grids and treaty excerpts. No advance reading or game theory is required.
Choose For Class at the start. Enter your name and, if you wish, your class or section. Finish the responses and checks to open your report. To pause or change devices, open Save & resume and download a JSON backup. Use the same activity and mode to restore it.
Choose Download Class PDF in your finished report. If needed, use Print or save as PDF. Open the PDF to check your name and responses, then upload it to Canvas.
What you’ll practice
- Compare a country’s two payoffs with its rival’s choice held fixed.
- Explain why the timing of a breach changes the payoff from tit-for-tat.
- Distinguish verification and repeated dealings from concerns about a rival’s relative gains.
- Use a penalty and a treaty provision to explain how a rule can change incentives.
- Distinguish a Prisoner’s Dilemma from a coordination problem.
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Instructor guide
Learning goals, suggested pacing, a rubric, and debrief questions.
Instructor guide · PDF