The Strategy of Conflict: With a New Preface by the Author

The Strategy of Conflict: With a New Preface by the Author
ISBN-10
0674251865
ISBN-13
9780674251861
Category
Political Science
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
1981-05-15
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Thomas C. Schelling

Description

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory—the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities between, for instance, maneuvering in limited war and in a traffic jam; deterring the Russians and one’s own children; the modern strategy of terror and the ancient institution of hostages.

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