THE CITIES ARE MOVING
Created by Yoav Duman

TAGLINE
An agreement is signed. Explain why.

SHORT CATALOG BLURB
A country moves into the neighborhood. Explain the agreement through five IR approaches, investigate new evidence, and defend advice with concrete tradeoffs.

WEBSITE BLURB
A country moves into the neighborhood. An agreement is already signed. Explain it through five international relations approaches, investigate an escort puzzle, and revise your advice as the evidence changes. Test a renewal proposal against consent, capacity, and competing interests, then take your reasoning to a new case.

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The agreement is signed. Your job is to explain why it happened—and advise what comes next. In a fictional world of mobile coastal cities, work as a regional evidence analyst. Use realism, three liberal approaches, and constructivism to explain the same event. Commit to an account of two escorts, examine new records, revise your argument, and negotiate a proposal with practical costs. A satellite case tests whether your reasoning travels. Designed for introductory international relations, with focused screens, theory reminders, required writing, portable progress backups, and printable response reports. Two parts; about 135 minutes as a design estimate, with flexible pauses. Created by Yoav Duman.

SEO DESCRIPTION
A country moves next door. Explain cooperation through five IR approaches, test new evidence, and defend your advice in a fictional solo simulation.

HERO ALT TEXT
Fictional mobile coastal cities share a sea of routes, ports, and floating neighborhoods. Decorative artwork for The Cities Are Moving.

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The Cities Are Moving | An International Relations Simulation

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One agreement. Five explanations. New evidence that can change your mind. Enter a fictional world of moving cities and defend your advice.

COURSE BLURB
Use course theories to explain an agreement among fictional mobile cities. Compare competing explanations, investigate new evidence, advise on renewal, and apply your reasoning to a new case. Complete both parts, download a progress backup, and submit your named response report using the course instructions. Allow roughly 135 minutes, with pauses as needed; this is a design estimate.

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Student guide · PDF
Instructor guide · PDF
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ACTIVITY DETAILS
Audience: Introductory international relations; basic course knowledge of the theories is useful.
Format: Individual, browser-based, no account required.
Pacing: Two parts, design estimate A 60 minutes and B 75 minutes; flexible save-and-resume breaks. Not a measured completion time.
Approaches: Realism/neorealism; economic interdependence; neoliberal institutionalism; Kantian/democratic peace; constructivism.
Writing: 40 required written responses (14 in Part A; 26 in Part B), plus eight knowledge checks.
Screens: 56 focused screens.
Saving: Current-browser saving plus downloadable JSON progress backups for restoration.
Submission: Printable/PDF response reports; downloading and printing do not submit work to the course system.
Assessment: Completion checks do not grade the meaning or quality of written arguments.
Case status: Every place, person, event, document, quotation, and number in the scenario is fictional.
