Anarchy is What Students Make of It: Playing Out Wendt’s Three Cultures of Anarchy

This article explores the hidden educational potential in board game Diplomacy. While commonly recognized as a good low-cost negotiation simulation and useful teaching platform, original version over-emphasizes conflictual nature of international relations presents an image that is not reflective state world politics today. The reports experiences from developing modified game. It suggests concrete way to integrate International Relations (IR) theories directly into By making three common theoretical approaches integrated part game, well expanding strategies, win conditions associated payoff tables, Diplomacy can be turned tool for one variant Realism flexible platform broader range IR theories, including Liberal-Institutionalism Constructivism. In this way, gap between abstract theory simulated practice bridged students much appreciate learning mode. thus partial solution key challenges using games simulations political science teaching: how connect or with theory.