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Student guide · PDFTrouble in Common / International Relations
The Tunnel Opens in Six Months
Who can stop the train after the deal is signed?
A lunar freight tunnel will cut a 12-hour trip to 48 minutes. Advise Marel before a rival gains control of the shortcut, test two gate rules, and decide what a late-night warning actually supports.
Created by Yoav Duman
- Format
- Solo cabinet simulation
- Time to plan
- 50–60 min
- What you produce
- A cabinet report with two gate trials, both alert decisions, and five written responses
Play the simulation
The game includes the case, dispatches, and vocabulary. No advance reading 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
- Identify how a shift in control can weaken the incentive to honor an earlier promise.
- Compare an assurance with an enforceable rule by tracing who can stop a departure.
- Distinguish a strike against a future shift in power from a strike against a specific imminent attack.
- Update advice as intelligence changes and apply the same reasoning to a new route.
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Instructor guide
Learning goals, suggested pacing, a rubric, and debrief questions.
Instructor guide · PDF