Survivability of Norms in International Systems with Varying Polarities

Student: Toloknev Kirill

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2017

In this paper, we design an agent-based model of international system in order to test whether there is a difference in norms survivability in international systems with varying polarities. We discover an interesting emergent property of our model: even a collapsed norm can re-emerge if agents interdependence levels are high enough.

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