The publications below are authored by Wargaming Lab affiliates and examine wargaming as a research method or use wargames to analyze policy-relevant issues.
Wargaming as a Research and Analytic Tool
Harris, Benjamin N. and Suzanne Freeman. “Crossing a Virtual Divide: Wargaming as a Remote Teaching Tool,” PS: Political Science and Politics Vol. 56, No. 3 (2023).
Lin-Greenberg, Erik, Reid B.C. Pauly, and Jacquelyn G. Schneider. “Wargaming for International Relations Research,” European Journal of International Relations Vol. 28, No. 1 (2022).
East Asian Security
Cancian, Mark F., Matthew F. Cancian, and Eric Heginbotham. "Wargaming Nuclear Deterrence and Its Failures in a U.S.–China Conflict over Taiwan," Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 13, 2024.
Sasakawa Peace Foundation. "Report: Table Top Exercise (TTX) on the Taiwan Strait Crisis," September 2024.
Cancian, Mark F., Matthew Cancian, and Eric Heginbotham, The First Battle of the Next War: Wargaming a Chinese Invasion of Taiwan, Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 9, 2023.
Emerging Technology
Lin-Greenberg, Erik. The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft, Cornell University Press, 2025.
Lin-Greenberg, Erik. “Wargame of Drones: Remotely Piloted Aircraft and Conflict Escalation,” Journal of Conflict Resolution Vol. 66, No. 10 (2022).
Economic Conflict
Lin-Greenberg, Erik, Benjamin N. Harris, and Daniel Cebul. "Corporations in the Crosshairs: Commercial Actors, Conflict Escalation, and Crisis Simulation," Simulation and Gaming (2025).
Heginbotham, Eric and Jung Jae Kwon, "Deterring Chinese Economic Coercion of Taiwan: Lessons from an Economic Statecraft Simulation," MIT Wargaming Lab, January 2024.
Gilboy, George J. and Eric Heginbotham. “America Needs a Single Integrated Operational Plan for Economic Conflict With China,” Lawfare, December 17, 2023.