Games Strategies and Decision Making in Global Affairs

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What are Games of Strategy?

  1. Not solely luck or skill

  2. Actions of actors must be responsive to your actions (intentional)


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6 Classification of Games

  1. Are players interests in alignment, conflict, or a mix?

  2. Do participants play simultaneously or sequentially?

  3. Are the rules fixed or manipulable?

  4. Is the game played once (one-shot game) or repeated? Same or different players?

  5. Can you cooperate? Can that be enforced?

  6. Do we have full or equal information?


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What is Strategy?

In Simultaneous games - Action taken

In Sequential move games - Strategies have to be complete (know from the start)

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What are Payoffs?

Represent what players care about

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How do you find expected payoffs?

Look at the payoff for each ending/outcome and average it.

Ex. Heads = 1, Tails = 0, Expected Payoff = .5

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What are Discrete Probabilities?

Outcomes/events/actions is between 0 and 1. Sun of all probabilities = 1