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Compare classical realism and structural neorealism by changing policy, then changing the balance of power.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","Security & power","IR theory"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English","Hebrew"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish prudence and policy choice from constraints created by the distribution of capabilities.","Separate national stock, local deployment, and conditional aid when reading capability data.","Use a model comparison to explain which change mattered and which uncertainty remains."],"preparation":"No prior theory knowledge required. An optional table-first evidence view makes the numbers easier to read.","pacing":"65–75 min","output":"A Class PDF with the decision chronicle, two model comparisons, four written responses, and first and current check results","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/flags-and-ferries/index.html?use=explore","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/flags-and-ferries","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/flags-and-ferries/cover.webp","limitations":"All states, numbers, response rules, and conversion factors are fictional teaching devices. The two controlled comparisons illustrate separate realist questions."},{"title":"The Statement","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/simulations/the-statement","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common","description":"Detainees are freed after a public condemnation. Governments, families, and diplomats tell different stories. Predict what the record would show under your explanation, inspect the evidence, and defend or revise your claim.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","Human rights","Ideas & norms","Evidence & inquiry"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish public approval, willingness to punish, and documented government conduct.","Separate events that followed a condemnation from evidence that it changed behavior.","Name which audience, action, and time period a causal claim covers."],"preparation":"No specialist legal knowledge required. Teach after sovereignty and international norms or let the case introduce the issue.","pacing":"35–45 min · optional +10–15 min","output":"A Class PDF with six written checkpoints, the evidence trail, first and revised claims, and four concept checks","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-statement/index.html?use=explore","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/the-statement","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-statement/cover.webp","limitations":"The scenario and dated records are fictional teaching materials. The articles measure different outcomes and do not supply a single general answer about condemnation."},{"title":"After You","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/simulations/after-you","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common","description":"One government makes a climate promise. Workers, firms, and coastal residents in another country have different stakes. Advise the government, predict its next move, and follow records that complicate your first explanation.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","Climate politics","International cooperation","Evidence & inquiry"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish conditional international cooperation from domestic incentives and bargaining.","Predict an actor's response and identify evidence that could distinguish competing explanations.","Revise a recommendation while accounting for distributional effects and unresolved uncertainty."],"preparation":"Introduce climate cooperation or begin with the opening evidence. The reading guide pairs the scenario with published research.","pacing":"40–50 min","output":"A Class PDF with advice, three forecasts, selected records, a causal explanation, and a research transfer","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/after-you/index.html?use=explore","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/after-you","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/after-you/cover.webp","limitations":"Vela, Luma, and the records are fictional. The published studies address specific research settings and illuminate possible mechanisms."},{"title":"The Next Move","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/simulations/the-next-move","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common","description":"Send Vela’s inspection order, then rewind the first or last meeting to see tit-for-tat at work. Decide whether to sign two draft agreements and explain why cooperation and the balance of power can pull in different directions. Then test a tariff fine and apply your reasoning to a historical treaty.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","International cooperation","Security & power","IR theory"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Compare a country’s two payoffs with its rival’s choice held fixed.","Compare a first and last breach to explain when a short-run gain costs points later.","Use the draft comparison to explain how institutions help sustain cooperation and why a rival’s relative gains can still matter.","Test how a trade penalty changes a best reply and what could make a treaty rule matter.","Distinguish a Prisoner’s Dilemma from a coordination problem in a fresh case."],"preparation":"No advance reading or game theory required. Payoff grids and treaty excerpts are built in.","pacing":"60–75 min","output":"A class report with a replay log, both draft decisions, a theory explanation, cabinet advice, a treaty analysis, and a rescue radio check","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-next-move/index.html?use=explore","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/the-next-move","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-next-move/cover.webp","limitations":"The states, crises and point values are fictional. Orin uses an announced copying rule in the repeated game. The treaty provisions describe legal rules. Historical behavior requires separate evidence."},{"title":"The World We Make","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/simulations/the-world-we-make","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common","description":"Two armed rivals meet. Investigate the end of the Cold War and the campaign to ban landmines. Carry records between exhibits, test an inspection protocol, and defend a coalition strategy before you revisit your first prediction.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","Ideas & norms","Security & power","IR theory"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Explain how ideas, identities, and norms can change what capabilities mean to different actors.","Compare constructivist explanations with material and institutional accounts.","Use named historical records to revise a prediction and assess a coalition strategy."],"preparation":"Historical evidence is included. The sources and evidence limits are available before play.","pacing":"60–90 min · 5 episodes","output":"A Class PDF with 12 explanations, the evidence-based prediction revisit, and the decisions and records behind them","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-world-we-make/index.html?use=explore","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/the-world-we-make","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-world-we-make/cover.webp","limitations":"Historical records are sourced and the cases occur across different places and dates. Workshop choices and their outcomes are hypothetical."},{"title":"The Cities Are Moving","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/simulations/the-cities-are-moving","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common","description":"A country moves into the neighborhood. An agreement is already signed. Explain the bargain through five IR approaches, investigate two escorts that drew different reactions, and revise your advice as the evidence changes. Finish the week with an exam rehearsal about a new wildfire aircraft pact.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","IR theory","International cooperation","Security & power"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Distinguish five theories by the causal explanations they offer for the same agreement.","Use new records to compare rival accounts and reconsider an earlier explanation.","Test a proposal against consent, capacity, and competing interests, then apply the logic to a new case."],"preparation":"Basic course knowledge is helpful. Theory reminders and case evidence are built in. Plan about 60 minutes for Part A, 75 for Part B, and 70 for Part C across exam-prep week.","pacing":"205 min · 3 sittings","output":"A single Class PDF with both parts of the investigation, the first exam rehearsal answer, and its evidence-based revision","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-cities-are-moving/index.html?use=explore","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/the-cities-are-moving","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-cities-are-moving/cover.webp","limitations":"The floating states, the wildfire pact, and the records are fictional. Both cases illustrate how to compare five approaches."},{"title":"The Tunnel Opens in Six Months","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/simulations/the-tunnel-opens-in-six-months","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common","description":"A lunar freight tunnel will cut a 12-hour trip to 48 minutes. Advise Marel before a rival gains control of the shortcut, test two gate rules, and decide what a late-night warning actually supports.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","Security & power","International cooperation","IR theory"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Identify how a shift in control can weaken the incentive to honor an earlier promise.","Compare an assurance with an enforceable rule by tracing who can stop a departure.","Distinguish a strike against a future shift in power from a strike against a specific imminent attack.","Update advice as intelligence changes and apply the same reasoning to a new route."],"preparation":"The game includes the case, dispatches, and vocabulary. No advance reading is required.","pacing":"50–60 min","output":"A cabinet report with two gate trials, both alert decisions, and five written responses","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-tunnel-opens-in-six-months/index.html","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/the-tunnel-opens-in-six-months","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-tunnel-opens-in-six-months/cover.webp","limitations":"The lunar case and freight figures are fictional. Use the trial to isolate control over departure, then ask what evidence a government would need about real intentions and capabilities."},{"title":"Four Days on the Ridge","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/simulations/four-days-on-the-ridge","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common","description":"Advise a cabinet weighing a local truce. Compare how two briefings frame the same odds, investigate reports from Kargil, and decide what would count as evidence that a handover took place.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","Security & power","Conflict & bargaining","Evidence & causal reasoning"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Identify a change in reference point while the possible outcomes and odds stay fixed.","Calculate expected posts and explain why two choices with the same average may carry different risks.","Compare what the July 4 statement and July 11–12 accounts establish about the Kaksar withdrawal.","Revise advice using a changed forecast and a field signal, then apply verification reasoning to Korea."],"preparation":"Briefings, probability tools, maps, and source excerpts are in the game. No advance reading is required.","pacing":"60–75 min","output":"A cabinet report with decisions, calculations, document comparisons, and nine written responses","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/four-days-on-the-ridge/index.html?use=explore","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/four-days-on-the-ridge","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/four-days-on-the-ridge/cover.webp","limitations":"The briefings, four-day truce, point values, and probabilities are teaching models. The case materials separately identify the dated Kargil and Korea records."},{"title":"Who Gets to Put Pride on the Field?","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/simulations/seattle-2026-pride-on-the-field","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common","description":"Work the news desk for Seattle’s 2026 World Cup match between Egypt and Iran. Follow who can make each decision, weigh competing explanations for what happened, and compare the evidence with the 2022 OneLove armband dispute.","subjects":["Political science","International relations","Institutions & authority","International cooperation","Evidence & causal reasoning"],"materialType":"Simulation","audience":"Undergraduate and independent learners","languages":["English"],"cost":"Free","requiresStudentAccount":false,"learningObjectives":["Separate local celebrations, stadium access, and approval of what happens on the field.","Distinguish direct observations, attributed claims, written rules, and records of decisions.","Compare plausible explanations using evidence that could establish a plan change and what caused it.","Apply the same evidentiary standard to Seattle and Qatar while comparing institutional leverage."],"preparation":"The game includes the source cards, match context, and vocabulary. No advance reading is required.","pacing":"About 90 min","output":"A case report with source selections, a travel check, a fact-check, and a Qatar comparison","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"softwareLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","costPolicy":"Original hosted resources are free to use","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/seattle-2026-pride-on-the-field/index.html?use=explore","teachingCompanion":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/teaching/seattle-2026-pride-on-the-field","teachingLicense":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","openlyLicensed":false,"accessibility":"See the collection accessibility statement.","accessibilityURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/accessibility","image":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/seattle-2026-pride-on-the-field/cover.webp","limitations":"The report follows the evidence available in the game. Treat attributed accounts of plans, warnings, and reasons as claims with identifiable sources."}],"frontiers":[{"title":"After You","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/frontiers/after-you","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common / Frontiers","materialType":"Research simulation","cost":"Free","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/after-you/index.html?use=explore","requiresStudentAccount":false,"sourceCodeAvailable":false,"rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","license":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","learningObjectives":["Distinguish your recommendation from a forecast of what a government will do.","Compare conditional cooperation with domestic bargaining as explanations for a policy change.","Use dated records to revise a claim and identify evidence that would separate rival explanations."],"preparation":"The activity introduces the climate-policy vocabulary. The source companion is available for a closer look at the research.","pacing":"40–50 minutes for the solo Class investigation, plus a debrief if assigned.","description":"Vela makes a stronger climate pledge. Advise neighboring Luma, predict what its government will do, and see what the records say about bargaining at home and pressure from abroad."},{"title":"The Statement","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/frontiers/the-statement","creator":"Yoav Duman","provider":"Trouble in Common / Frontiers","materialType":"Research simulation","cost":"Free","embeddingAllowed":true,"embedURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/play/the-statement/index.html?use=explore","requiresStudentAccount":false,"sourceCodeAvailable":false,"rightsURL":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/reuse","license":"Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved","learningObjectives":["Distinguish changed public opinion, diplomatic action and outcomes for detainees.","Use the timing and content of a record to test a claim about what caused a release.","State the evidence that would strengthen, weaken or change your explanation."],"preparation":"The case introduces public condemnation, private diplomacy and norms. No specialist legal knowledge is required.","pacing":"35–45 minutes for the solo Class investigation, with an optional 10–15 minute extension.","description":"Detainees are released after a public condemnation. Officials, organizers and diplomats each offer an explanation. Choose evidence that could tell their accounts apart."}],"readingPartners":[{"title":"The Cooperation Lab","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/frontiers/cooperation-lab","externalProvider":"Gemini","materialType":"Reading partner","requiresProviderAccount":true,"providerLimitsApply":true,"description":"When a powerful country turns against an institution it helped build, can others keep cooperation going? Work through Carnegie and Clark’s argument and apply it to a fictional flood-warning network.","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"license":"Provider and source terms apply"},{"title":"The Rivalry Brief","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/frontiers/rivalry-brief","externalProvider":"Gemini","materialType":"Reading partner","requiresProviderAccount":true,"providerLimitsApply":true,"description":"Can cooperation help create a future rival? Use Mearsheimer’s account of U.S.–China competition to build a short brief and apply it to a flashpoint.","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"license":"Provider and source terms apply"},{"title":"The Rules Hearing","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/frontiers/the-rules-hearing","externalProvider":"Gemini","materialType":"Reading partner","requiresProviderAccount":true,"providerLimitsApply":true,"description":"Can a broken rule still matter? Examine a double standard and recommend a response to a fictional border crisis using Tanisha Fazal’s argument about norms.","sourceCodeAvailable":false,"license":"Provider and source terms apply"}],"companions":[{"title":"World Regions Lab","url":"https://trouble-in-common.ishmaldon.chatgpt.site/world-context","directoryRecord":"https://worldregionslab.com/directory.json","rightsURL":"https://worldregionslab.com/reuse","languages":["English","Spanish","German"],"spanishURL":"https://worldregionslab.com/?lang=es","spanishEmbedURL":"https://worldregionslab.com/embed?use=explore&lang=es","germanURL":"https://worldregionslab.com/?lang=de","germanEmbedURL":"https://worldregionslab.com/embed?use=explore&lang=de","germanGuides":{"student":"https://worldregionslab.com/resources/World_Regions_Lab_Student_Guide_DE.html","instructor":"https://worldregionslab.com/resources/World_Regions_Lab_Instructor_Guide_DE.html"}},{"title":"Possible States","url":"https://possiblestates.com","directoryRecord":"https://possiblestates.com/api/resources","rightsURL":"https://possiblestates.com/reuse"}]}