The Strategy of Conflict - Hardcover

Schelling, Thomas C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674840305 ISBN 13: 9780674840300

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1960

Synopsis

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 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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

'In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling's work opens to rational analysis a crucial field of politics, the international politics of threat, or as the current term goes, of deterrence. In this field, the author's analysis goes beyond what has been done by earlier writers. It is the best, most incisive, and most stimulating book on the subject.'

About the Author

Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1960
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674840305
• ISBN 13: 9780674840300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 309