Scenario 16-3 Consider Two Countries, Eudora and Inhabii, That Are Engaged in Engaged

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Scenario 16-3
Consider two countries, Eudora and Inhabii, that are engaged in an arms race. Each country must decide whether to build new weapons or to disarm existing weapons. Each country prefers to have more arms than the other because a large arsenal gives it more influence in world affairs. But each country also prefers to live in a world safe from the other country's weapons. The following table shows the possible outcomes for each decision combination. The numbers in each cell represent the country's ranking of the outcome.

-Refer to Scenario 16-3.If Inhabii chooses to build new weapons,the country of Eudora will

• A)disarm in order to prevent the loss of influence in world affairs.
• B)disarm in order to promote world peace.
• C)build new weapons in order to promote world peace.
• D)build new weapons in order to prevent the loss of influence in world affairs.

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