GVPT 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Arms Race

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Government and Politics
• Course: GVPT 200
• Professor: Calvert Jones

Document Summary

Today"s reading is very short and thus most of the material for wednesday will be generated in lecture. But you should read the few pages for today carefully and be able to answer the following questions: pevehouse and goldstein introduce the concept of prisoners" dilemma on pp. One person"s gain is a result of the others loss: what situations in international relations might resemble a prisoner"s dilemma, arms race. Best situation (most points) is you make the nuclear weapon and the other doesn"t ( high expense, gained leverage). Second best is neither make nuclear weapons (no expense, no leverage). Third best is both make (major expense, no leverage).