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Between Appeasement and Belligerent Moralism: The Evolution of Moral Conduct in International Politics

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What are the conditions for "moral" conduct in international politics to be viable? This question is explored by modeling regional conflicts as a two-stage game in which imitation of other countries' strategies and public opinion formation processes are assumed to have an impact on a country's strategic choice. The results derived by using the notion of an evolutionary stable strategy point to some very special conditions for moral conduct to emerge and survive, a fact that may explain the historical finding that there have been rather rare periods during which peaceableness did indeed prevail in international politics, at least at a regional level. Copyright 2001 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Witt, Ulrich, 2001. "Between Appeasement and Belligerent Moralism: The Evolution of Moral Conduct in International Politics," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 106(3-4), pages 365-388, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:106:y:2001:i:3-4:p:365-88
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    1. Christian Cordes, 2012. "Emergent Cultural Phenomena and their Cognitive Foundations," Chapters, in: Guido Buenstorf (ed.), Evolution, Organization and Economic Behavior, chapter 3, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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