To Play or Not to Play: The Use of Game Theory in International Relations
To Play or Not to Play: The Use of Game Theory in International Relations

Summary/Abstract: In the past two decades, the surge of interest in modeling national security, regional alliances, international political economy and domestic politics - to name just a few - using the tools of Game Theory has met both with considerable optimism and with sobering pessimism from quantitative and qualitative political scientists everywhere. The present paper aims to herald a comprehensive systematization of game theoretic analysis, which has been typically confined to choice case studies, and to post-hoc analysis of world events. A better typology of the approaches and testable controls that have emerged within Game Theory may shed additional light on international relations and allow for its entrance into more respectable circles of world studies theorizing.

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