This course presents the fundamentals of game theory and examines its applications to various aspects of international relations, such as arms races, deterrence, crisis bargaining, wars of attrition, terrorism, interstate cooperation, security regimes, war termination, conflict resolution, and peacemaking. The discussion will emphasize the paradoxical nature of strategic interaction and the need to incorporate non-linear logic into security analysis. The historical case studies will be drawn primarily, but not exclusively, from the Arab-Israeli conflict.

 

Discipline: ECO, POL