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The Strategy of Conflict
Thomas C. Schelling · 1980
80/100
👍 Worth It
Schelling's 1960 game-theory classic earned its Nobel Prize: the insight that the threat of uncertain retaliation can be more powerful than a certain one reshaped Cold War strategy and remains foundational to how economists and security scholars think about bargaining and deterrence. It is dense and the Cold War examples date it at the edges, but the framework has outlasted the era.
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