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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... conflict - corresponding to the di- verse meanings of the word " conflict " - a main dividing line is between those that treat conflict as a pathological state and seek its causes and treatment , and those that take conflict for granted ...
... conflict - corresponding to the di- verse meanings of the word " conflict " - a main dividing line is between those that treat conflict as a pathological state and seek its causes and treatment , and those that take conflict for granted ...
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... conflict . Concepts like deterrence , limited war , and disarmament , as well as negotiation , are concerned with the common interest and mutual dependence that can exist between participants in a conflict . Thus , strategy — in the ...
... conflict . Concepts like deterrence , limited war , and disarmament , as well as negotiation , are concerned with the common interest and mutual dependence that can exist between participants in a conflict . Thus , strategy — in the ...
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... conflict game would be represented by some or all of the points on a nega- tively inclined line , those of a pure common - interest game by some or all of the points on a positively inclined line . In the mixed game , or bargaining ...
... conflict game would be represented by some or all of the points on a nega- tively inclined line , those of a pure common - interest game by some or all of the points on a positively inclined line . In the mixed game , or bargaining ...
Contents
The Retarded Science of International Strategy | 3 |
An Essay on Bargaining | 21 |
Bargaining Communication and Limited War | 53 |
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action advantage adversary agreement all-out balance of terror bargaining game behavior cell chance Chapter choice choose clue Column commitment communication concert conflict cooperative game coordination coordination game decision depends deterrence enemy enforcement evidence example expected value game theory identify incentive initial interest involved John Harsanyi jointly kind knows likelihood limited limited war Luce and Raiffa mathematical matrix means military minimax missiles mixed strategies move mutual Nash Nash point negotiation no-attack nonzero-sum game nuclear weapons offer one's other's outcome pair participants particular partner party payoff payoff matrix penalty play possible potential preference principle probability problem promise pure Quemoy random rational players recognize retaliation retaliatory forces risk role Row's rules Russians side situation solution stable strategy strike structure suggestion suppose surprise attack symmetry tacit bargaining tacit game tactic threat threaten tion tive value system yield zero-sum game