This artifact concerns the US and USSR relations during the Cold War and how this applies to the bargaining model of conflict. In terms of perceptions, the United States had malevolent preferences towards the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The US sacrificed much of its income and resources in order to reduce the Soviet Union’s income/resources. This was essentially done through a conventional and nuclear arms race between the two nations. In this case, the level of malevolence between the two countries was extremely high, so the allotted area and chance for mutual settlement was very low; hence the 5 decade long “Cold War”. This application of malevolent preferences can be seen in figure 1 below.