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    Exclusionary behavior toward the outgroup was selected as... — Carmelics
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    Exclusionary behavior toward the outgroup was selected as the dominant coordination strategy because it served as an efficient focal point for ingroup coordination.

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    • 1.The most distinctively Serbian (or Hutu) behavior — the doing of which signalled coordination — was to exclude Croats (or Tutsi).
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    • 2.Strategies with efficient focal points are selected in coordination games.
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    • 3.Exclusionary behavior therefore became the dominant coordinated strategy.
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    • 1.Coordination games permit multiple equilibria, so exclusionary behavior was not uniquely efficient — inclusive coordination norms also satisfy focal point conditions.
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    • 2.Schelling's focal point theory requires salience, but salience is itself shaped by prior political mobilization, not inherent strategic logic.
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    • 3.The explanandum (why exclusion rather than inclusion became salient) is smuggled into the explanans, rendering the argument circular.
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    • 1.Kuran's preference falsification theory demonstrates that ethnic exclusion cascades from elite manipulation, not spontaneous coordination equilibria among ordinary actors.
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    • 2.If exclusionary behavior were merely an efficient focal point, we would expect symmetric adoption across all intergroup conflicts, but empirical variance requires non-game-theoretic explanations such as institutional design and historical grievance.
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    According to Hardin, neither the Yugoslavian nor the Rwandan disasters were PDs to begin with. That is, in neither situation, on either side, did most people begin by preferring the destruction of the other to mutual cooperation. However, the deadly logic of coordination, deliberately abetted by self-serving politicians, dynamically created PDs. Some individual Serbs (Hutus) were encouraged to perceive their individual interests as best served through identification with Serbian (Hutu) group-int
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