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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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Thomas C. Schelling. dox in its dramatic reminder that , important as it may be to keep secrets from an enemy and in ... importance of not keeping that particular secret has an analogue in our alleged political inability to attack first ...
Thomas C. Schelling. dox in its dramatic reminder that , important as it may be to keep secrets from an enemy and in ... importance of not keeping that particular secret has an analogue in our alleged political inability to attack first ...
Contents
The Retarded Science of International Strategy | 3 |
An Essay on Bargaining | 21 |
Bargaining Communication and Limited War | 53 |
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