摘要：Using examples for each type of model, we consider dynamic games, differential games, andsimulation as alternative ways of extending the standard static economic model of conflict tostudy patterns of conflict dynamics. It turns out that computational requirements andtheoretical difficulties impose tight limits on what can be achieved using the first twoapproaches. In particular, we are unable to study dynamic military conflict as a series of“battles” that are resolved individually. A simulation study based on a new model of adaptive,boundedly rational decision making, however, is shown not to be subject to this limitation.Plausible patterns of conflict dynamics
关键词：Conflict; dynamics; contest success functions; differential games;dynamic games; simulation; emergence of war
