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Comment: Game Theory for the study of International Politics and its limitations.

  • UPSC 2005
  • 20 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Game theory is the formal study of rational choice when one actor's outcome depends on another's choice. It was founded by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (1944). Thomas C. Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict (1960) carried it into strategic studies. It fits international politics because states under…

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