Please think about the following questions, preparing 1-2 sentences (or a short paragraph) in response to each, for discussion during the next meeting of our class. Some of these questions are overlapping; they all demand serious consideration (there are no "right" answers). These questions, and your reactions to them (drawn from your experience of the game), will form the basis of your next (and last) paper for PO111.

1. How do the rules of the game structure the way the game is conducted (played)?
2. Did ‘unwritten rules’ of behavior emerge during the game, concerning the behavior of any of the players toward the other players or a subset of other players? If so, what were the rules, and how did they affect play in the game?
3. Under what conditions (if any) did cooperation emerge between the teams?
4. Under what conditions (if any) did conflict or extreme rivalry emerge?
5. Which (conflict or cooperation) better describes the overall play of the game?
6. If you had the opportunity to play a second game, did you observe any differences in the patterns of behavior, when compared to the first play of the game?
7. Do you think that the number of players in the game made any difference to how the play in the game emerged? (Compare, if you can, general comparisons between the four and six-ball games).
8. Did you notice if the number of players on each team mattered in any way, in the play of the game? What might this signify?
9. What patterns of behavior emerged around strategizing for the game? Given the rules stipulated for play in your game, how was strategy agreed to? Who was designated to take the shots?
10. Did strategy on your team evolve during the course of the game? Did it differ with respect to one player (or set of players) compared to another player (or group of players)? What might you conclude about these observations?
11. Did you notice any difference in behavior between all-male and all-female teams (and the mixed sex teams)? What might you conclude from your observations in this respect?
12. In playing such a game, could you make overall observations about human nature that can be applied as general rules for understanding behavior in such a game? What were they? Can you envision the application of such an understanding to the international realm? How?
13. Is it fair to construct International Relations as a similar sort of game, made up of self-interested actors, all competitively pursuing a mutually exclusive goal (there can be only one winner)?