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1 NASH EQUILIBRIUM AS A MEAN FOR DETERMINATION OF RULES OF LAW (FOR SOVEREIGN ACTORS) Taron Simonyan 1 Social behavior and relations, as well as relations of states in international area, are regulated by rules most of which have normative character. The 20th and 21st centuries can be characterized also by the fact that the quantity of legal rules and norms trying to regulate all the above-mentioned relations and behavior have increased, sometimes in geometric progression. But there are still some relations that are not regulated by written law or clear customary norms, and in order to regulate those relations one needs to determine rules of law in order to have a particular relation regulated in a due manner. And some questions may arise here: where have those rules and norms come from; what are the sources of such rules; have those rules and norms come from other social norms; are they transformed types of other social norms; how can those rules be determined; what methodology can be used for that determination, etc.? If it is mostly clear that in the case of domestic affairs and relations a sovereign state provides the norm of law either by the parliament, by the executive power (in Civil Law countries), or by the court (in Common Law countries), the situation is different with respect to international relations, where the main source of international law is the will of states, and the main means, stipulated by the Statute of ICJ, are the forms reflecting that will of states: a. international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states; b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice 1 Candidate of Legal Sciences, Assisting professor of the Chair of Theory and History of State and Law of the Yerevan State University. tsimonyan.arm@gmail.com. 17
2 accepted as law; c. general principles of law recognized by civilized nations. The same article provides also the secondary means for the cases when it is unclear where to find the crystallized will of states: judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of rules of law 2. In the present research I will concentrate on the issues of determination of rules of international law and a small part of domestic law (mainly in civil law, where the actors are relatively sovereign); both of them will appear in the present research as law. I will try to show that a very interesting foundation of the Game theory, the principle or concept of Nash equilibrium, can have a very useful and productive role for the due determination of rules of law, which are difficult to find and apply, and try to make some inferences on the paths of determination of rules of law. The practice of the past fifty years shows that it is very hard to determine rules of law by only the existing means. We need something more, the missing elements or element, which can provide more opportunities for researchers and practitioners to find and apply the right norm. In this regard Dr. Eyal Benvenisti shows that the existing means for the determination of rules of international law are not enough and offers another vision: the vision on law from the point of the efficiency: the doctrine on customary international law is inherently linked to the principle of efficiency. Efficiency justifies the doctrine. Put differently, efficiency is the underlying principle the grundnorm of customary international law. 3 This is a very innovative approach in theory of law and especially in international legal studies, and it shows the necessity of changing the paradigms on legal research and legal practice. One can argue that by changing the paradigms we shift our point of view from 2 Article 38, 1, Statute of International Court of Justice. 3 Eyal Benvenisti, Customary International Law as a Judicial Tool for Promoting Efficiency; The Impact of International Law on International Cooperation, Theoretical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pages
3 legal studies to philosophical studies, but it has already been stipulated by several researchers and scientists that law, as such, is a complex system and cannot be researched otherwise than through its very complex, interconnected essence, using interdisciplinary vision, if one needs to analyze its real role and features in social behavior. And for deep, comprehensive research and analysis in the 21st century, one needs new approach, new paradigm meeting the requirements of the interconnected world where all elements are in a process of synergy, and the whole is much more than just the amount of its elements. This complex and interconnected reality in law can be studied by new methodology, new theory that is the complexity theory, as [c]omplexity theory provides an analogical foundation for that new paradigm of legal theory. 4 By using this vision [o]ne might accept the presence of invisible hands throughout social life and the value of using complex adaptive systems theory to understand them better, but nonetheless resist applying complex adaptive systems theory to legal systems on the ground that the law is where humans write the rules for other social systems. But this misses two fundamentals. First, the legal system, as a source of rules for regulating other social systems, should take into account how those systems operate. If one wishes to regulate a complex adaptive social system, one ought to think like a complex adaptive social system. Second, law, as in the collection of rules and regulations, is the product of the legal system, a collection of people and institutions. Law, in this sense, is simply an emergent property of the legal system the same way prices are an emergent property of markets. 5 When trying to understand new ways of determination rules of law, which can show a broader vision to legal reality, I try to use the benefits of the Game theory (Nash equilibrium) along with the 4 Ruhl. J. B., Complexity theory as a paradigm for the dynamical law-and-society system: A wake-up call for legal reductionism and the modern administrative state, Duke Law Journal, volume 45, 1996a, , page Ruhl. J. B., Law's Complexity, Georgia State University Law Review Symposium Issue, Forthcoming, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research paper No. 313, , page
4 Complexity theory. First of all, one must say that the Game theory has been a focal point in research and studies of international relations for several decades, but its appearance generally in law and particularly in international law is of a far more recent vintage. As Jens David Ohlin says, the best way to understand international law is as a Nash Equilibrium a focal point that states gravitate toward as they make rational decisions regarding strategy in light of strategies selected by other states. 6 Nash equilibrium is a fundamental concept in the theory of games and the most widely used method of predicting the outcome of a strategic interaction in the social sciences. It is defined as a steady state of the play of a strategic game in which each player holds the correct expectation about the other players behavior and acts rationally. 7 Mathematician John Forbes Nash in his 1951 article, Non- Cooperative Games, was to define a mixed strategy Nash Equilibrium for any game with a finite set of actions and prove that at least one (mixed strategy) Nash Equilibrium must exist in such a game. This concept was created in contradiction of Adam Smith s concept, according to which in competition, individual ambition serves the common good, and that the best result will come from everybody in the group doing what's best for himself, and the group. Whereas John Nash, considering Adam Smith s concept as incomplete, adds the cooperation as an important tool to get the best outcomes for each participant of the game, creating an equilibrium in social or other behavioral environment. Since the 1960s social scientists and political leaders have been using the inferences of the Game theory to have a sophisticated matrix for modeling state relations. Thomas Schelling was one to 6 Jeans David Ohlin, Nash Equilibrium and International Law, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No , Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, pages , 2011, page Martin J. Osborne & Ariel Rubinstein, A Course in Game Theory 14 (1994). 20
5 write a comprehensive research on this issue 8. The theory is widely spread also in econometrics, political science other social sciences. And by this tool social scientists could not only explain why some states had acted the way they did, but might also predict future behavior under certain conditions 9. While game theory offered theorists of international relations a model for explaining state relations, the methodology has had a far more explosive effect among international lawyers. Recent accounts have harnessed alleged lessons learned from game theory in service of a new brand of realism about international law. 10 These skeptical accounts conclude that international law loses its normative force because states that follow international law are simply participants in a Prisoner s Dilemma seeking to achieve self-interested outcomes. 11 States comply with international norms in specific interactions with a particular state when there are good reasons to believe that the other state will reciprocate such compliance. 12 The new realists proceed to argue that compliance in a Prisoner s Dilemma is based on reciprocity that is hard to come by. A state will prefer to violate the treaty or customary rule while their competitor adheres to it, though this state of affairs is hard to achieve as all competitors share the exact same preference. 13 But in any case, most of the researches insist: [t]he fact that states are self-interested is no way undermines the normativity of international law. In the end, states cooperate by complying with international legal norms and this commitment is necessarily grounded by their self-interest Thomas C. Shelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 3-20 (2 nd ed. 1980). 9 Joel. P. Trachtman, The Economic Structure of International Law, 4-5, (2008). 10 Jack L. Goldsmith & Eric A. Posner, The Limits of International Law (2005); Eric A. Posner, Do States Have a Moral Obligation to Obey International Law?, 55 Stan. L. Rev (2003). 11 Jack L. Goldsmith & Eric A. Posner, ibid., page Jack L. Goldsmith & Eric A. Posner, ibid., pages Jack L. Goldsmith & Eric A. Posner, ibid., pages Jeans David Ohlin, Nash Equilibrium and International Law, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No , Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, pages , 2011, pages
6 All this mean that if a sovereign actor, a subject of law, is rational and holds the correct expectation about the other actors behavior, acts rationally, a new equilibrium will come to life, which will have reciprocal agreement of all actors in its essence in a written or non-written form. In this equilibrium all actors will benefit from each other, no one will be defeated in the relation, no one will lose from the game, and the system of social relations and behavior will get some kind of its state of pareto optima, which can give rise the efficiency of the whole system in itself and for all actors within, increasing the system s productivity. Eyal Benvenisti in his essay on Customary International Law as a Judicial Tool for Promoting Efficiency describes his view on customary international law as a tool for international courts, mainly International Court of Justice, to develop international law and promote efficiency. He stipulates: when states or any other players interact, they rationally find themselves in Nash equilibria that may be inefficient. A judicial declaration of one equilibrium as the one that is binding as custom is likely to lead all players to modify their activities to conform to the judicially sanctioned equilibrium. This equilibrium will thus become the new practice, the new custom. This suggests that one state s deviation from prior practice in favor of a more efficient one need not be regarded as a breach if the deviation conforms to the underlying norm of efficiency. Rather, such a deviation has a very good chance of becoming, sooner rather than later, and certainly with the help of an intervening court, the new practice, the new norm. And in the end he concludes: [e]fficiency, in the sense of efficient allocation of resources among states, has been all along the driving force behind the development of international law in general and customary international law in particular. State practice has often proven a reliable proxy for determining what constitutes efficient behavior for all states to follow. This proxy enabled international tribunals and other actors to impose sanctions on free riders or others seeking to deviate from the efficient norm. But this proxy fails when global or regional 22
7 conditions lead states to pursue inefficient behavior. In such situations, tribunals and other third parties can make a difference by pushing states towards new, more efficient Nash equilibria. 15 The author takes the concept of efficiency as another mean for determination of rules of law, especially customary law, and describes Nash equilibrium as a set of relations that attracts state practice and the belief that this practice is rendered obligatory 16, namely opinio juris. I offer to view to the reality of relations between the sovereign actors (states or other actor, e.g. contracting parties in civil law relations) from another point of view. When it is unclear where can the rules of law be derived from, there is no apparent evidence of the existence of customary international law, only the concept or principle of efficiency cannot give the answer to risen questions. It is the equilibrium of Dr. Nash that can contain in itself the path of lawcreation and law-development acceptable by all actors in a given relationship, if these actors, of course, are rational and ready to act rationally, which means that they want to earn the most benefits from the system of relations and not just to do harm to other actors, even if they get less from these relations. This means that Nash equilibrium already contains in itself the most favorable efficiency for the actors and the system as a whole. We should look at the set of social or international relations from above, from the point of view of the most favorable efficiency for that particular time, which in its case, can be found only in Nash equilibrium. Thus, Nash equilibrium is the driving force for the development of international and social relations of rational actors, covering and regulating system of law either international, or domestic. From this vision one can make an inference that a subject of law, an actor, 15 Eyal Benvenisti, Customary International Law as a Judicial Tool for Promoting Efficiency; The Impact of International Law on International Cooperation, Theoretical Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2004, pages North Sea Continental Shelf (F.R.G. v. Den./Neth.), I.C.J. Reports 1969, page 3, at para. 77. The Permanent Court of International Justice first enunciated the doctrine of opinio juris in the Lotus Case (France v. Turkey), P.C.I.J. Reports, Series A, No. 10 (1927) at
8 while getting the highest level of satisfaction of his/her/its interests and making the minimum inconvenience for other subjects/actors, harmonizes his/her/its private interests with common interests and makes a ground for relative equilibrium of the system, and the center, foundation of that equilibrium becomes the focal point and source of rules for common behavior, thus, rules of law of that particular period of time. This conclusion can be considered as a reflection of law s essence as the guarantee and expression of social equilibrium (as well as equilibrium in supranational relationship) and sustainability. The actors of a given relationship, if acting rational, will come to the final conclusion of acting in cooperation regime, where synergy can be reached and it can bring more satisfaction for the system as a whole and for each participant in particular than if they act in pure competition regime aspiring to get more at the expense of other actors interests. Therefore, bearing this position in mind, it is not hard to realize the significant role of Nash equilibrium in the determination of rules of law for relatively sovereign actors. And that role can be compared with another concept of the theory of Complex Systems the concept of Attractor, which can be described as a set towards which a variable, moving according to the dictates of a dynamical system, evolves over time. And even if the social behavior or international relations are slightly disturbed, while getting close enough to that attractor, those relations and behavior will remain close to it. But this can be a subject for another research. 24
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