The Strategy of Conflict - Paperback

Product detail - Author: Thomas C. Schelling | ISBN-13: 9780674840317 | Format: Paperback Publisher: Harvard University Press | Publication Date: 1990-07-01 | Pages: 328 | Product Dimensions: 142 x 209 x 18mm | Weight: 374g |

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.