Comments on: The gratuitous game theory of official support http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/ News and analysis of the North Korean economy Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:43:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: North Korean Economy Watch » Blog Archive » The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.. http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/#comment-36950 North Korean Economy Watch » Blog Archive » The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:08:54 +0000 http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/#comment-36950 [...] the DPRK to use donated funds and supplies in an acceptible way.  Remember: carrots AND sticks.  See the game theory here.  However, since the DPRK’s new game seems to play the US, China, Russia, and South Korea [...] [...] the DPRK to use donated funds and supplies in an acceptible way.  Remember: carrots AND sticks.  See the game theory here.  However, since the DPRK’s new game seems to play the US, China, Russia, and South Korea [...]

]]> By: Janus http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/#comment-35805 Janus Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:10:17 +0000 http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/#comment-35805 This is the very same topic I am pursuing for my undergraduate IR thesis. I've also added that NK has an incentive to cooperate in the first round of a prisoners' dilemma (because at this point it issues feel-good proclamations and promises of future action--both of zero cost to NK--and gets some financial (aid)/diplomatic (reduced winset for hawks) payoff in exchange. However in an iterative game with multiple rounds, cooperation would entail NK following through on promises of disarmament and liberalization, which are fundamentally incompatible with the nature of the regime, and so NK will (and does) inevitably defect. Do feel free to email me with any gaping holes in my logic before I go on and on with this for 70 pages or so... johnak-at-sas-dot-upenn-dot-edu This is the very same topic I am pursuing for my undergraduate IR thesis.

I’ve also added that NK has an incentive to cooperate in the first round of a prisoners’ dilemma (because at this point it issues feel-good proclamations and promises of future action–both of zero cost to NK–and gets some financial (aid)/diplomatic (reduced winset for hawks) payoff in exchange.

However in an iterative game with multiple rounds, cooperation would entail NK following through on promises of disarmament and liberalization, which are fundamentally incompatible with the nature of the regime, and so NK will (and does) inevitably defect.

Do feel free to email me with any gaping holes in my logic before I go on and on with this for 70 pages or so… johnak-at-sas-dot-upenn-dot-edu

]]> By: Left Flank http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/#comment-35673 Left Flank Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:31:05 +0000 http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/#comment-35673 <strong>Gaming Pyongyang...</strong> The only way to be optimistic about DPRK's willingness to negotiate away its only nuclear bargaining chip this year will be to pray for the Kim regime's collapse. It's cold solace. Victor Cha is a bit more positive. Cha, a scholar at Georgetown Uni... Gaming Pyongyang…

The only way to be optimistic about DPRK’s willingness to negotiate away its only nuclear bargaining chip this year will be to pray for the Kim regime’s collapse. It’s cold solace. Victor Cha is a bit more positive.
Cha, a scholar at Georgetown Uni…

]]> By: North Korean Economy Watch » Blog Archive » Miniunific: Show me the money! http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/#comment-35548 North Korean Economy Watch » Blog Archive » Miniunific: Show me the money! Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:00:31 +0000 http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2008/02/15/gratuitous-game-theory-of-official-support/#comment-35548 [...] See the gratuitous game theory here. [...] [...] See the gratuitous game theory here. [...]

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