Tessman (international affairs, U. of Georgia) presents simulation games for use in international relations courses. In addition to pursuing overall country objectives in the scenarios, student players are also assigned individual positions of chief decisionmaker, diplomat, economic adviser, intelligence officer, or opposition leader, each with their own individual objectives. Simulation scenarios, in which teams collaborate and negotiate in order to make decisions concerning allocation of resource factors, diplomacy, trade, and war, are constructed so as to provide lessons on alliance politics, territorial disputes, nuclear proliferation, ethnic conflict, free trade vs. protectionism, natural resource politics, currency crises, foreign aid, global security organizations, international criminal courts, collective action problems, and environmental challenges. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)