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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... concert their intentions in this fashion , as do the applauding members of a concert audience , who must at some point " agree " on whether to press for an encore or taper off together . If chess is the standard example of a zero - sum ...
... concert their intentions in this fashion , as do the applauding members of a concert audience , who must at some point " agree " on whether to press for an encore or taper off together . If chess is the standard example of a zero - sum ...
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... concert . One wants to know how everyone else is going to act and whether everyone else will do what he knows he ought to . A test vote in a legislature or some particular simultaneous action among the group , like a mass protest , is ...
... concert . One wants to know how everyone else is going to act and whether everyone else will do what he knows he ought to . A test vote in a legislature or some particular simultaneous action among the group , like a mass protest , is ...
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... concert on a nonsymmetrical pair of strategies . But much the hardest part is just recognizing that they have to ; the question of how to do it then becomes a practical matter . They must jointly and tacitly find a clue to the ...
... concert on a nonsymmetrical pair of strategies . But much the hardest part is just recognizing that they have to ; the question of how to do it then becomes a practical matter . They must jointly and tacitly find a clue to the ...
Contents
The Retarded Science of International Strategy | 3 |
An Essay on Bargaining | 21 |
Bargaining Communication and Limited War | 53 |
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