Tacit Bargaining, Arms Races, and Arms Control

When most people, including social scientists, reflect on the ways that nations resolve their differences, they tend to think in terms of polar alternatives: war versus negotiation. This perspective ignores a third path: tacit bargaining, which is applicable, as this book shows, to a wide variety of international issues and is especially germane to the problem of treaty maintenance.

George W. Downs is professor of politics and public affairs, Princeton University. David M. Rocke is professor, Graduate School of Management, University of California at Davis.