The Strategy of Conflict

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.