POLS 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Trench Warfare, Hegemony
11 Nov 2016
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Killing your enemy is a good thing because in doing so you may allow yourself to survive and removes the threat your adversary poses. Having both sides cooperate is certainly preferable to both sides killing each other. It would be detrimental for both of you to die in a shoot-out. Worst of all would be for you to die because you restrained yourself and for your adversary to survive because he did not. Robert axelrod believes that sometimes cooperation emerges where it is least expected . Discusses the trench warfare system of world war i. Between these battles, and even during them at other places along the five- hundred-mile line in france and belgium, the enemy soldiers often exercised considerable restraint . This is because both sides seemingly believed in the policy or live and let live . There are 2 ways in which parties can escape the prisoner"s dilemma according to.
