I teach International Relations (it's also the area in which I wrote my thesis.) The Prisoners' Dilemma provides an excellent model for explaining the behavior of countries and beginning a discussion of various IR theories. The example in the link above is adequate; however, the following game show provides a much better example which even includes some of the variations on the game - opportunity for discussion, past iterations, lack of "the shadow of the future."
In current international politics, just picture the guy as President Barack Obama and the chick as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
However, a nuked Israel is a lot worse than getting shafted out of several thousand pounds,
Brad
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