Pols. 315 Fall 2017 International Relations, Prof.

Chadwick

Preparation and conduct of a simulation.

Select an issue to research. If youre not settled on an issue on which to focus at the
beginning of the simulation, you might find it useful to outline possibilities using Clines
Pp=(C+E+M)(S+W), for instance:
C Is there a lack of resources that makes you/your party, state, or society
vulnerable (e.g., food, water, energy, minerals/metals, air/water pollution, climate)?
E Is there a dependency on other countries for technology or financing or skills
(e.g., importing labor) that makes you vulnerable?
M Do you have adequate deterrence/offensive capabilities to achieve your goals?
S Are your purposes consistent with your capabilities?
W Are you encouraged by the support you get? Suffer from domestic political
instability? Espionage or sabotage, or its threat, limiting your options?
Select units to represent (government leadership positions,) Youll need a head of
state, a foreign minister for diplomacy, a military head and a financial head.
Get your team (national leadership group) to meet and set goal(s), options (alternative
policies), to prioritize and promote.
Prepare for negotiation:
What are the interests and options of other nations in the simulation?
Consider strategy:
cooperation look for possible outcomes that are mutually beneficial (win-win),
conflict look for outcomes that may require or stimulate coercive strategies
tactics, either by you or others.
Negotiation skills? Here are a couple of books on the subject:
Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Robert Fisher and William Ury, Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in.

About issues
Select an issue to research
Decide on who the stakeholders are those whose interests are affected and who
have some influence over issue outcomes. (See the Coplin model on Laulima.)
What are the stakeholders' goals, preferred policy alternatives and priorities?
Are there values and concerns that transcend the stakeholders' interests? Who/what
can give them voice? (Recall the lesson of the Richardson arms model and payoff
matrix, for instance.)
Consider approaches to politics
realist is the use of coercion likely to resolve the issue or create new problems?
Liberalist can the problem be solved by economic means (trade, finance)?
Economic structuralist what global economic forces or conditions are at play?
Transnationalist (English School) can change in world institutions help?
Is there room for speculating about creative (constructivist) solutions to your problems?

Next page: an outline for your 2 -3 page paper which will be shared with the class.

2017 Richard W. Chadwick, chadwick@hawaii.edu

Pols. 315 International Relations, Prof.Chadwick

2017 Fall simulation: initial policy outline

Name:_______________________________

Position: _____________________________

Country: _____________________________

Issue: ___________________________________________________________________

Discussion:

(Include names of countries you want to negotiate with, statement of the problem or
opportunity, and anything youd like to propose to initiate the negotiation.)

Send a copy of this form to the Course Discussions area on Laulima.

2017 Richard W. Chadwick, chadwick@hawaii.edu