POL SCI 126 Lecture 6: 1_29_2019
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Tit for tat: prisoner"s dilemma game, overc. 2,2: best order is as follows: dc, cc, dd, cd. Arms race: one-shot game, tit for tat, there is no best strategy, reasons for success, nice, retaliatory, clear. Low discounting: today or a year from now, people must not discount the future too much for tit for tat to work, monitoring ability. Timely warning to know the other side is cheating before it is too late: examples. There wasn"t a state to enforce this it was just based on reciprocity and self interest. Israel closes of its border to palesteniens who work in israel to retaliate against suicide bombers. This is tit for tat: arms control without agreement. In 1963 the soviet leader khroushchev responded to an appeal by kennedy where kennedy said us wouldn"t orbit nuclear weapons in space so long soviet didnt. There was an agreement between the two even though there was no formal agreement or treaty.
