If both sides decide to share the land this would give us a result of a positive sum, win-win situation. In the foreign relations field most of the situations are more likely to be accordant with the variable sum-game. The first example I will portray about the game theory is the "chicken game". The chicken game consists in which two contenders drive their vehicles, one in front of the other, in a one way road. The point of the game is that they both drive rapidly towards each other and the first who a deviate is considered as the chicken or loser. Each player has two options, to keep in the track or deviate. The problem is that both of them don't know what the other contender will do, so none of them is able to control the result of the game. Both sides or players would get benefits of cooperation, this benefit consists that they both avoided the collision and destruction that could've happened. Winning depends on how much the contender is willing to risk. This example can be portrayed in an international conflict involving nuclear or war dangers. .
Another example is the prisoners' dilemma, this game example assumes that two persons where found together in a crime scene and get arrested because both seem suspicious. They both are assumed to be guilty of crime and are submitted separately to interrogation measures. The two of them are given the opportunity confess what happened and get a lighter sentence or remain silent and gain the maximum sentence. The tricky part is that both prisoners are locked in separate rooms and have no idea if their partner will rattle or remain silent. They can't trust what decision their partner will take so they definitely can't control the situation. They have a lot to gain or lose in this game. Well, assuming that they rattle each other they would get a medium sentence; if they both remain quiet they will gain the minimum sentence. But the nerve racking part is if one rattles and the other one remains silent, one will go away with nothing and the other prisoner will get the whole sentence.
