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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... important concept in criminal law for a long time . Legislators , jurists , lawyers , and legal scholars might be supposed to have subjected the concept to rigorous and systematic scrutiny for many generations . To be sure , deterrence ...
... important concept in criminal law for a long time . Legislators , jurists , lawyers , and legal scholars might be supposed to have subjected the concept to rigorous and systematic scrutiny for many generations . To be sure , deterrence ...
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... important , of the threatened party's conviction that the threat will be carried out . Clearer perhaps in child discipline than in criminal deterrence is the im- portant possibility that the threatened punishment will hurt the ...
... important , of the threatened party's conviction that the threat will be carried out . Clearer perhaps in child discipline than in criminal deterrence is the im- portant possibility that the threatened punishment will hurt the ...
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... important distinction in the process of limiting war or destroying its limits . Similarly , there is little difference between the terrain a hundred miles north of the Soviet - Iranian border and the ter- rain a hundred miles south , or ...
... important distinction in the process of limiting war or destroying its limits . Similarly , there is little difference between the terrain a hundred miles north of the Soviet - Iranian border and the ter- rain a hundred miles south , or ...
Contents
The Retarded Science of International Strategy | 3 |
An Essay on Bargaining | 21 |
Bargaining Communication and Limited War | 53 |
Copyright | |
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