War games and crisis simulations are exercises where participants make decisions to simulate real-world behavior. In the field of international security, games are frequently used to study how actors make decisions during conflict, but they can also be used to model human behavior in countless other scenarios.
The MIT Center for International Studies and Security Studies Program are offering new war gaming resources for modeling human behavior and decision-making in real-world scenarios.
<p>If economic sanctions become a replacement for military force in international conflict, they also risk becoming a normal part of nationalist economic policy that escalates international rivalry as a feature of the global economy. </p>
The sanctions imposed on Russia over the past three weeks have been among the most stringent on any country in modern times. Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, described the freeze on the assets of Russia’s central bank, in particular, as “an absolutely radical measure… a break-the-glass .