The strategy of conflict.

By:

Schelling, Thomas C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge Harvard University Press 1960Description: 309 p. illus. 22 cmISBN:

978048403617

Subject(s):

Negotiation

DDC classification:

158SCH

Summary: 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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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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