Is a bit old now but interesting, its definition and wiki is here.
Some barriers to Game B are:
- winner-takes-all – where competing entities in an arms race for dominance. The internet has magnified these dynamics where things like shopping concentrates massive wealth to Jeff Bezos or local taxi companies are crushed by a loss making Uber (success for Uber is predicated on investment that drives competitors out of the market).
- multi-polar traps – where there competing entities are in a power status-quo, but one player defects from the rules of the game for personal advantage, e.g
- if either US or Russia breaks the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, they have a nuclear advantage.
- Countries not party to the Paris Agreement can freely use carbon-based fuels to their economic advantage.
- The power shift occurring between USA and China is another obvious example.