This executive education module offers an immersive, simulation-based approach to strategic thinking in international affairs. Drawing on established frameworks of strategic interaction, participants will explore what gives one side bargaining leverage over another, why efforts to reach a bargain stall or fail even when both sides would benefit from a deal, why and how crises escalate. The session will also examine how the actions that make a threat believable can simultaneously make a crisis uncontrollable. Through interactive crisis simulations on contemporary geopolitical challenges, they will step into the shoes of key decision-makers and make real-time high-stakes decisions under significant uncertainty and time pressure. The session is designed to be hands-on and discussion-driven. Participants will walk away with a structured way of thinking on how crises unfold and a practical toolkit to manage them. While the cases come from international affairs, the frameworks and skills developed in this session apply to any strategic environment where consequential decisions must be made under uncertainty and pressure.