The Strategy of Conflict'In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling's work opens to rational analysis a crucial field of politics, the international politics of threat, or as the current term goes, of deterrence. In this field, the author's analysis goes beyond what has been done by earlier writers. It is the best, most incisive, and most stimulating book on the subject.' |
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... balance of terror and the ancient institution of hostages . The analysis is neither difficult nor so dependent on mathe- matics or analytical apparatus as to be inaccessible to any serious reader . A few chapters call for a rudimentary ...
... balance of terror and the ancient institution of hostages . The analysis is neither difficult nor so dependent on mathe- matics or analytical apparatus as to be inaccessible to any serious reader . A few chapters call for a rudimentary ...
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... balance of terror " as simply a massive modern version of an ancient institution , the exchange of hostages . Here perhaps we perceive a disadvantage peculiar to civilized modern students of international affairs , by contrast with ...
... balance of terror " as simply a massive modern version of an ancient institution , the exchange of hostages . Here perhaps we perceive a disadvantage peculiar to civilized modern students of international affairs , by contrast with ...
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... balance of terror " that is so often adverted to isif , in fact , it exists and is stable equivalent to a total exchange of all conceivable hostages . ( The analogy requires that the balance be stable , i.e. , that neither side be able ...
... balance of terror " that is so often adverted to isif , in fact , it exists and is stable equivalent to a total exchange of all conceivable hostages . ( The analogy requires that the balance be stable , i.e. , that neither side be able ...
Contents
The Retarded Science of International Strategy | 3 |
An Essay on Bargaining | 21 |
Bargaining Communication and Limited War | 53 |
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