A relatively up-to-date index of posts about simulations and games as well as class exercises and activities; some items appear in more than one category:

Theory 

• Bargaining model of war; 25 July 2016
• Beer game: system-imposed constraints on decision making; 24 November 2013
• Collective Action Problem Game, the collective action problem; 18 March 2015
• Democracy vs. Autocracy: The Resource Distribution Game; 14 October 2016
• Doughnut Negotiations: Win-Sets With Sprinkles; 11 June 2018
• Fearon’s rational theory of war: war, bargaining; 21 February 2014
• Hobbes Survive-or-Die Game, original version: IR classical realism; 1 October 2012
• Hobbes Survive-or-Die Game, poker extension: IR power distribution and neoliberal institutionalism; 28 September 2014
• Prisoner’s Dilemma and Prisoner’s Dilemma and Zombies: defection behavior; 13 November 2013
• Risk Tolerance Game: rationality, deterrence, war;  5 August 2019

General

• Amoeba Game; 6 November 2017.
• Confidence and simulations: using simulations as confidence skill-building exercises; 7 March 2017.
• Design your own final and review games: student-led exam/review creation, 1 December 2011 and 8 December 2011
• From Tabletop Games to the Classroom, links to the entire 2017 six-part series at the bottom of the first post
• Groupwork; May 25, 2013
• Picture it!:  game on map reading and making; introduction to the college campus, 29 July 2014
• Trivial Pursuit Review Game; 21 February 2014
• Weekly critique; 10 August 2011
• World of Warcraft: using online games to teach politics and economics, 15 November 2012
• ‘Yes, and . . .’: using improv comedy tactics to encourage class participation, 4 February 2013

Economics

• Agrarian Society Card Game: poverty, development; 8 August 2011
• Ayiti – The Cost of Life: poverty, development; 25 February 2013
• Free Rice: making a difference, world hunger, World Food Programme; 8 March 2013
• Global Inequality Game; 29 May 2014
• Global Development/IPE Game: power, negotiation, NGOs; 1 February 2016
• Inequality Monopoly: socioeconomic class, poverty, development; 9 October 2013
• Papers, Please: immigration, poverty; 18 October 2013
• Spent: poverty in the USA; 18 March 2013
• Stars and Triangles: comparative advantage; 25 August 2013
• Squares and Triangles: global trade; 2 April 2018
• Statelessness Game; 11 April 2013
• Third World Farmer: poverty, development; 27 February 2013
• Wealth Inequality Game: inequality, voting rules in international financial institutions; 6 May 2014
• Where Did Your Stuff Come From and variation: scavenger hunt that teaches international trade and globalization; 27 January and 10 February 2017
• World Without Oil: simulation of a global energy crisis; 21 January 2013

American Government

• 20 Minute Legislature and Magic Genie: distributive implications of politics, September 14, 2011 and 30 March 2012
• 20 Minute Interest Groups; 28 September 2011
• Agenda board game; 20 September 2015
• Arrested: constitutional law, civil liberties, criminal procedure; 26 August 2019
• Citizenship Test: first day of class lesson on citizenship; 17 August 2011 and 12 October 2012
• Do I Have a Right?: civil liberties; 5 October 2011
• Fixing Health Care; 9 October 2017
• Framing Exercise: media framing of news; 27 February 2014
• Government in Our Lives: first day of class exercise for American government; 29 August 2013
• I-Civics: balancing the budget, separation of powers, and other simulations; 21 September 2011
• Mission U.S.: US history through games about the Boston Massacre, slavery, and westward expansion; 22 January 2014
• Papers, Please: immigration, public policy, poverty; 18 October 2013
• Parliament Game with the Gray-Tufted Banderwot: legislative behavior, coalitions; 24 April 2017
• Redistricting Game: congressional redistricting, 11 September 2013
• Spent: poverty, state and local government, public policy; 18 March 2013
• Voter Suppression Game; 7 November 2016

Comparative / International / Global

• Against All Odds: refugees; 29 January 2015
• Attack of Dr. X: collective security; 30 January 2014
• Climate Challenge, first and second posts: climate change, environment, public policy; 3 April 2013 and 26 July 2013
• Distribution, decision, and death: resource allocation, meaning of politics, terrorism; 30 March 2012
• Failing Fisheries: sustainable fishing & Tragedy of the Commons; 2 February 2015
• Gerkhania: ethnic politics, democratization, constitutions; 28 April 2014; new, improved version; 17 July 2017.
• ICONS Crisis in North Korea: IR, international security, negotiation, East Asia; 10 April 2015
• Identity politics activity: ethnic politics, cleavages; 3 July 2014
• IR Cards Against Humanity; 27 August 2013
• Model Diplomacy: simulations by the Council on Foreign Relations; 24 April 2017; also discussed 9 May 2018
• Parliament Game with the Gray-Tufted Banderwot: legislative behavior, coalitions; 24 April 2017
• Public Health Simulation; 3 February 2017
• Risk Tolerance Game: rationality, deterrence, war;  5 August 2019
• South China Sea simulation, three-part series in 2017: here, here, and here
• Statecraft, first and most recent posts: online simulation for teaching international relations; 24 November 2011 and 21 January 2015
• Stop Disasters: natural disaster preparation and response; 2 August 2012
• Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route: refugees, war and conflict; 1 April 2015
• Tragedy of the Bunnies: tragedy of the commons; 2 February 2015
• Walking Dead: ethics of war; 11 March 2013

Game Design, Typology, and Mechanics

• From tabletop games to the classroom, parts 1-6: important game design considerations; 5 February 2017.
• Simulations for large classes: problematizing unitary actors; 25 January 2015
• Multiple and Parallel Worlds: playing games in large classes, 16 March 2015
• Total physical response (TPR); 19 August 2013
• Typology of gameplay mechanisms; 19 January 2015

Methods

• The Best X in Town: semester-long methods project on measurement, survey design, coding, and descriptive statistics
• Evaluating Sources Exercise; 25 July 2012
• Iceland Correlation: correlation v. causation; 3 December 2013
• Sherlock: identifying the core of the literature; 26 January 2012
• Teaching about Variables with Playing Cards; 23 February 2017
• Whodunnit, and Part 2: using murder mysteries to teach methods; 3 July 2013 and 26 November 2013
• Zendo/Playing with Blocks: critical thinking, hypothesis testing, data analysis; 1 August 2011 and 24 February 2016.

Online Games

• 20 Minute Interest Groups; 28 September 2011
• Against All Odds: refugees; 29 January 2015
• Ayiti – The Cost of Life: poverty, development; 25 February 2013
• Climate Challenge, first and second posts: climate change, environment, public policy; 3 April 2013 and 26 July 2013
• Do I Have a Right?: civil liberties; 5 October 2011
• Failing Fisheries: sustainable fishing & Tragedy of the Commons; 2 February 2015
• Framing Exercise: media framing of news, 27 February 2014
• Free Rice: making a difference, world hunger, World Food Programme; 8 March 2013
• I-Civics: balancing the budget, separation of powers, and other simulations; 21 September 2011
• Mission U.S.: US history through games about the Boston Massacre, slavery, and westward expansion; 22 January 2014
• Papers, Please: immigration, public policy, poverty; 18 October 2013
• Redistricting Game: congressional redistricting; 11 September 2013
• Spent: poverty, state and local government, public policy; 18 March 2013
• Statecraft, first and most recent posts: online simulation for teaching international relations; 24 November 2011 and 21 January 2015
• Stop Disasters: natural disaster preparation and response; 2 August 2012
• Third World Farmer: poverty, development; 27 February 2013
• Tragedy of the Bunnies: tragedy of the commons; 2 February 2015
• World Without Oil: simulation of a global energy crisis; 21 January 2013