ABSTRACT
Chapter 6, A New Age of Turmoil: From Traditional to Complex Settings, shifts to complex scenes, such as the civil wars and coping with terror in the Middle East that include failed states, IGOs, NSAs and the media as core actors alongside democratic and authoritarian states. The chapter explains the adjustments students need to make as they participate in a simulation with NSAs and IGOs in civil wars like the situations in Palestine 1947 and Syria, 2011–2019. It compares traditional and complex cases to illuminate major similarities and differences that require change and points to where some guidelines from Part I of the book vary. Chapter 6 provides practical guidelines and many illustrations from simulations to explain how students can successfully role play a complex case study and understand the core issues it involves. Such role play of complex cases is meant to broaden the variety of case studies with new actors in the cast and issues to confront and try to resolve.
