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The Strategy of Conflict

Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016. Book - 1980 302.3 Sc 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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Preface to the 1980 edition -- I. Elements of a theory of strategy. 1. The retarded science of international strategy -- 2. An essay on bargaining -- 3. Bargaining, communication, and limited war -- II. A reorientation of game theory. 4. Toward a theory of interdependent decision -- 5. Enforcement, communication, and strategic moves -- 6. Game theory and experimental research -- III. Strategy with a random ingredient. 7. Randomization of promises and threats -- 8. The threat that leaves something to chance -- IV. Surprise attack : a study in mutual distrust. 9. The reciprocal fear of surprise attack -- 10. Surprise attack and disarmament -- Appendices. A. Nuclear weapons and limited war -- B. For the abandonment of symmetry in game theory -- C. Re-interpretation of a solution concept for "noncooperative" games.

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PUBLISHED
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, ©1980.
Year Published: 1980
Description: vii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0674840313
9780674840317
0674840305
9780674840300

SUBJECTS
Negotiation.
Games of strategy (Mathematics).