Risk: World Domination: Strategy Board Game

Risk: World Domination is a strategy board game with the intent of building up an army and occupying every territory on the board, in thus dominating the world. In theory, the game is supposed to illustrate international theories via the structure and strategy and rules and winning conditions. The other Group 5 members were: Jacob, Zachary. Meredith and Leah. In the end, after 20 turns, all group members survived; a stalemate, with each group member having a high concentration of armies in specific continents. It is arguable that since this game is more of a teaching game, so most students are likely to be already somewhat familiar with Risk. The game offers the teaching advantage of taking something players thought they knew, and

Players who think they can be friends, rather than short-term allies of convenience, with anyone else in the game are quickly persuaded of the notion when they get betrayed by their “ally,” which also explain the concept of anarchy. For example, let’s say that player A has a stronghold in Europe and player B has a heavy presence in Central America and the other players have a far less presence in the game. What could very well be likely is a deal with players A and B. It would go something like this: “I won’t attack you or expand my territory into your region if, if you agree to keep players, x, y and z from entering this area.” Then all of a sudden, perhaps, player A, then attacks player B and alliances with someone else, throwing that player ‘under the bus.’ This could be a very common, and probably intended scenario. This also demonstrates the concept of social norms, which in this example was violated. In these norms, nations don’t just do x, y, z because it is simply barbaric and rational states are not barbaric. This is why it leads into the topic of anarchy, because in realism, we know that states are individual and only want to survive, but there is this idea of self-help. There is no one really higher up to protect the weaker hand when another character does something unethical; there is no one higher up to complain to. You have

As we can recall, liberalism, one of the main schools of international theory, is about cooperation of several characters, fostered through the democratic peace theory (democracies do not fight democracies) and international law to monitor behavior. Also, the other grand theory, constructivism, really is not represented well either. And to recap, constructivism is contrary to neo realism, in which international relations are socially constructed, that is, given a form their form interaction and social practices which are ongoing. All of these ideas seem to be missing in the structure of the