2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Metagame Strategies of Nation-States, with Application to Cross-Strait Relations
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Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction
Metagames (Howard, 1968), a class of formal models in game theory, model the behavior of players who predict each other’s conditional strategies recursively. We present a framework for three-player games based on metagame theory. This framework is well-suited to the analysis of nation-states, especially when the analyst wishes to make few assumptions about the level of recursive reasoning and the preference orderings of players.