POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nash Equilibrium, Win-Win Game, Strategic Dominance

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 244
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

Cooperation problems: strategic and institutional solutions. The security dilemma as a cooperation problem. Within strategic interactions, we can divide di erent settings into those in which there are. Within cooperation there were strategic settings that highlighted the need for coordination to obtain the gains of cooperation and other situations that highlighted collaboration. Coordination problems (dilemmas of common aversions: main obstacle to cooperation: communication. Collaboration problems (dilemmas of common interests: main obstacle to cooperation: cheating. So, when we talked about coordination, we mentioned the battle of the sexes and we said that the main solution was in the form of communication. If the couple ended up at di erent places, this was because there was a misperception about where the other was going to go. So, there is problem about the expectations that one actor has about the others. All these things, the misinformation, these misperceptions, could be solved through better communication.