Newly expanded workbook accompanies Principles of International Politics: People’s Power, Preferences, and Perceptions, 3rd Edition, by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita!
New class-tested, user-friendly exercises for the workbook walk students through the building blocks of the strategic method, ensuring that even novice students have the opportunity to develop and hone their problem solving skills and can successfully apply what they have learned in the text. The third edition of this invaluable workbook introduces students to a wide range of problems so that they master basic principles as well as test their capabilities with more challenging material.
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Table of Contents
Tables and Figures
Note to Students
Introduction: Foundations of International Politics
Chapter Concepts
Key Concepts
1. Modern Political Economic History and International Politics
Chapter Concepts
Historical Trends
2. Evaluating Arguments about International Politics
Chapter Concepts
Understanding Critical Elements of Theory and Social Science
3. Christopher Columbus and International Relations
Chapter Concepts
Making Sense of Strategic Interaction
Expected Utility
Decision Theory
Solving for Critical Conditions
Game Theory
4. International Politics from a Structural Perspective
Chapter Concepts
Structural Perspectives
The Prisoners’ Dilemma
Solving the Prisoners’ Dilemma
Examples of Prisoners’ Dilemma in International Politics
Other Strategic Form Games
Cooperation and Public Goods
5. International Politics from Group and Decision-making Perspectives
Chapter Concepts
Organizational Rules
Principal-Agent Models
Indifference Curves
Extensions
6. Domestic Politics and International Interactions: The Central Units of Analysis
Chapter Concepts
States in the International System
Spatial Modeling
Extensions
7. What Is Power?
Chapter Concepts
The Faces of Power
The Anticipation of Power
Punishment Applied
Extensions
8. Limits to Power
Chapter Concepts
Mixed Strategy Equilibria
War, Power, Winning, and Motivation
9. Preferences in International Politics
Chapter Concepts
Instrumental Rationality
The Median Voter Theorem
Extensions
10. Perceptions in International Affairs
Chapter Concepts
Dealing with Incomplete Information in Game Theory
Extensions
11. Perceptions, Deterrence, and Terrorism
Chapter Concepts
Deterrence
Terrorism
Extensions
12. Domestic Institutions and National Performance
Chapter Concepts
Selectorates, Winning Coalitions, and Types of Government
Private and Public Goods
Maintaining Political Power
Extensions
13. The International Political Economy of Trade
Chapter Concepts
Comparative Advantage and Trade
Extensions
14. International Organizations and International Law
Chapter Concepts
Identifying International Regimes
The Formation of Weak International Agreements
Extensions
15. Alliances
Chapter Concepts
Exploring Alliances
Assessing Alliance Reliability
Extensions
16. The Causes of War: Structural Accounts
Chapter Concepts
Extensions
17. Strategic Theories of War
Chapter Concepts
The International Interaction Game: Walk-through
Solving the International Interaction Game Using Backwards Induction
Extensions
18. A Predictive Model of International Affairs
Chapter Concepts
Exploring the Forecaster’s Predictions for World War I
Extensions
Bio(s)
D. Scott Bennett, Pennsylvania State University
D. Scott Bennett is associate professor of Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University. He studies the causes and consequences of international conflict, including international crises, disputes, and wars, and employs statistical, formal, and computational methods in conducting analysis. Most recently, he is the co-author of The Behavioral Origins of War with Allan Stam.
Leanne C. Powner, University of Michigan
Leanne C. Powner is a PhD candidate in World Politics in the University of Michigan's Department of Political Science. Her research interests are international cooperation and international organizations. She has presented papers on teaching and learning at APSA and ISA conferences, and is the webmaster of the Active Learning in International Affairs section of the ISA.
