Simulation in International Relations Education

Brigid A. Starkey and Elizabeth L. Blake
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Elizabeth L. Blake: University of Maryland

Simulation & Gaming, 2001, vol. 32, issue 4, 537-551

Abstract: For the past 50 years, scholars and practitioners of international relations have used simulations as experimental, predictive, and educational tools to model real-world environments. This article will focus on the educational applications of simulations in international relations (IR), first reviewing the development of IR simulations and then tracing this history by examining the International Communication and Negotiation Simulations (ICONS) Project at the University of Maryland as a representative example of this genre. It will examine in particular the use of information technologies in facilitating and delivering simulations, and conclude with a brief discussion of how computer-assisted simulations have, in some cases, anticipated trends in the real world of diplomacy, and in others, attempted to respond to new trends.

Keywords: active learning; ICONS; internation simulation; international relations; Internet-delivered simulations; POLIS; simulation/gaming; teaching with technology; virtual diplomacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1177/104687810103200409

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