Great-power competition is back. With the post–Cold War unipolar moment over, the United States and China now jostle over trade and technology, compete in a conventional and nuclear arms race, and ...

The prisoner's dilemma is a game used by researchers to model and investigate how people decide to cooperate—or not. Imagine that Prisoner A and Prisoner B are charged with a crime and detained ...

With or without the "electric cars are gay" joke that made its trailer a subject of controversy last fall, "The Dilemma" is not a particularly funny movie. Lean, fast-talking Ronny Valentine (Vaughn) ...

Why do people make decisions that don’t seem to make sense? One answer, which comes from game theory, is called the prisoner’s dilemma. The prisoner’s dilemma explains why people make decisions which ...

The prisoner's dilemma is a game used by researchers to model and investigate how people decide to cooperate—or not. Imagine that Prisoner A and Prisoner B are charged with a crime and detained ...