The Strategy Of Conflict

" In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling’s work opens to rational analysis as crucial field of politics, the international politics of threat, or as the current term goes, of deterrance. 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." —Annals of the American Academy " An important contribution to understanding the conduct of the ambiguous conflict between communist bloc on the one hand and the United States and its Free World Allies on the other. " —Journal of Politics. About Author: Thomas C Schelling is Lucius N Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Hoh F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is the 2005 Nobel Larueate in Economics.