Blocs, States, and Borderlands : Explaining Russia's Selective Territorial Revisionism
Journal: Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (Hokkaido University)
Year: 2016

Variation in post-Soviet Russia’s borderland policies challenges empirical findings in International Relations that associate militarized territorial revisionism with economic and demographic incentives and the absence of border settlements. This study offers additional insights from game theory. First, iterated Prisoners’ Dilemma tournaments imply that state territorial value is interactive – i.e., dependent on interaction frequency across groups of states. Second, the collective action logic s