The Coordination Game and the Proliferation of Power

In a coordination game, we can both get ahead better than by not creating an agreement or by defecting on each other. We'll do economic trade rather than warfare, right? And there's lots of places where we try to do that and where it works. But the gist in acoordination game is that if, say, I'm a country and what I care about is the balance sheet of my country, like just the metrics associated with my country then I'm happy to have war for increased economic purposes. Then if what I'm trying to affect is something less than the whole, and they're the out group to us, the in group to them, is also trying to advance