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Playing down his defection, the New China News Agency said that he "did not mean to betray the State, the nation, the monastery, or the leadership."
Hence, rational players should always defect regardless of what the opponent does (in both a one shot game and for predicted responses over repeated games due to backward induction from an expected final defection), leading to the question of why cooperation emerges.
Thus, the title becomes equally appropriate as an umbrella for Anna's story, its consequences on her contemporaries, and the novel's preoccupation with the agrarian defection from that society of (Tolstoy's stand-in) Levin.
The New York Times says his defection to the West in 1990 helped topple Albania's Communist regime.
The terrific Times biz-section story on the ad industry's all-too-sudden, profit-motivated defection to the anti-smoking camp quotes an advertising executive named Alex Bogusky.