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The Strategy of Conflict

by Thomas C. Schelling
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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.-Print ed.
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Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

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  • Release date: November 6, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9781786252166
  • File size: 1713 KB
  • Release date: November 6, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9781786252166
  • File size: 1713 KB
  • Release date: November 6, 2015

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History Military Nonfiction

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English

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.-Print ed.
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History Military Nonfiction
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