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Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.34"This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing."-Gordon... -
Arms and Influence by Thomas C. Schelling 9780837189802
Booksplease Price: £96.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837189802Format HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Praeger Publishers Inc -
Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling 9780393329469
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.64"Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." -official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was... -
Costs and Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Reduction by Thomas C. Schelling 9780844771144
Booksplease Price: £6.85Little will be done in the near future to reduce greenhouse gas emissions - providing an opportunity to develop programmes for research, subsidization, and regulation. This text focuses on specific... -
The Strategy of Conflict: With a New Preface by the Author by Thomas C. Schelling 9780674840317
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £22.99A 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... -
Erving Goffman and the Cold War by Gary D. Jaworski 9781666936803
Booksplease Price: £85.65Erving Goffman and the Cold War presents a provocative new reading of the work of sociologist Erving Goffman. Instead of viewing him as a "marginal man" or academic outsider, Gary D. Jaworski... -
Selected Contributions To Game Theory Robert J Aumann 9789811221064
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.17Robert Aumann was awarded (jointly with Thomas C Schelling) the 2005 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 'for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and... -
In Theory and in Practice: Harvard's Center for International Affairs 1958-1983 by David C. Atkinson 9780674027770
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.71Harvard University inaugurated a new research center devoted to international relations in 1958. The Center for International Affairs (CFIA) was founded by State Department Director of Policy... -
Nobel Lectures In Economic Sciences (2001-2005) Peter Englund (Stockholm School Of Economics, Sweden) 9789812794390
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.92This volume is a collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies and the presentation speeches at the award ceremonies in Stockholm for the period 2001... -
International System: Theoretical Essays by Klaus Eugen Knorr 9780691623252
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A sample of recent thinking in international relations theory, World Politics, October 1961, is offered also in a special hard-cover edition. Contributors: M.A. Kaplan, A.L. Burns, T.C. Schelling, R... -
International System: Theoretical Essays by Klaus Eugen Knorr 9780691656526
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.32A sample of recent thinking in international relations theory, World Politics, October 1961, is offered also in a special hard-cover edition. Contributors: M.A. Kaplan, A.L. Burns, T.C. Schelling, R... -
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.85"Castles, Battles, and Bombs" reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of... -
When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment by Mark A. R. Kleiman 9780691148649
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.73Since the crime explosion of the 1960s, the prison population in the United States has multiplied fivefold, to one prisoner for every hundred adults--a rate unprecedented in American history and... -
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer 9780226071640
Booksplease Price: £18.93"Castles, Battles, and Bombs" reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of... -
Games: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation by David Blagden 9781108447324
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £18.19The essays from prominent public intellectuals collected in this volume reflect an array of perspectives on the spectrum of conflict, competition, and cooperation, as well as a wealth of expertise on... -
Negotiating Peace: War Termination as a Bargaining Process by Paul R. Pillar 9780691613307
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.06This work draws on insights from the experimental and theoretical literature on bargaining to provide a much-needed comprehensive treatment of the neglected subject of how wars end. In a study of how... -
Cooperation under Anarchy by Kenneth A. Oye 9780691022406
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07This path-breaking book offers fresh insights into a perennial problem. At times, the absence of centralized international authority precludes attainment of common goals. Yet, at other times, nations... -
Economic Statecraft: New Edition by Ethan B. Kapstein 9780691204437
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £93.28A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policyToday's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military... -
Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics by Austin Carson 9780691181769
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.30Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S... -
Cognition and Extended Rational Choice Howard Margolis (University of Chicago, USA) 9780415701983
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94One of the most exciting recent innovations in the social sciences has been the emergence of 'behaviour economics', which extends the notion of rational choice to allow for both motivation beyond... -
Deterrence and Defense by Glenn Herald Snyder 9780691625683
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.68In the literature of diplomacy and military strategy, there has long been a gulf between the concepts of deterrence and defense. Glenn Snyder bridges this gulf, offering a systematic analysis of the... -
Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics by Austin Carson 9780691204123
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S... -
Economic Statecraft: New Edition by Ethan B. Kapstein
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policyToday's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military... -
Social Policy and Public Policy: Inequality and Justice by Lee Rainwater
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.19This classic volume was originally designed as an introduction to social science perspectives on a broad range of social issues in American society, specifically the complex social problems of the... -
Escalation and Nuclear Option by Bernard Brodie 9780691623849
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02This work stresses the importance, in making any choice of strategies-including the decision to use or refrain from using nuclear weapons-of gauging the intent behind the opponent's military moves... -
Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods by Scott Barrett 9780199585212
Booksplease Price: £46.96Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them... -
Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of Political Economy: Polycentricity in Public Administration and Political Science by Daniel H. Cole 9781498508872
Booksplease Price: £51.50Elinor (Lin) Ostrom was awarded the 2009 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her pathbreaking research on "economic governance, especially the commons"; but she also made important... -
Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy by Ian W. H. Parry
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £38.79Issues of the Day provides an easy way for students, academics, journalists, policymakers, and the public to learn about a diverse range of policy issues affecting the environment, energy,... -
Foreign Aid: Theory and Practice in Southern Asia by Charles Wolf 9780691626055
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £54.45Most available literature on foreign aid lacks precise terminology, reliable data, and a theory that; permits profiting from experience. This book tries to meet some of these difficulties by... -
What Do Economists Contribute? by Daniel B. Klein 9780333777602
Booksplease Price: £91.36The title of this book raises a provocative question that should make all economists think. What is our raison d'etre ? Only a few economists have specifically addressed the issue. Several of the... -
What Do Economists Contribute? by Daniel B. Klein 9780333739624
Booksplease Price: £90.56The title of this book raises a provocative question that should make all economists think. What is our raison d'etre ? Only a few economists have specifically addressed the issue. Several of the... -
Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation by Etel Solingen 9780521281188
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.75Some states have violated international commitments not to develop nuclear weapons. Yet the effects of international sanctions or positive inducements on their internal politics remain highly... -
Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods by Scott Barrett 9780199211890
Booksplease Price: £88.68Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them... -
A Logic of Expressive Choice by Alexander A. Schuessler 9780691006628
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Alexander Schuessler has done what many deemed impossible: he has wedded rational choice theory and the concerns of social theory and anthropology to explain why people vote. The "paradox of... -
The Use of Force: Military Power and International Politics by Robert J. Art 9781442233058
Booksplease Price: £83.01The Use of Force, long considered a classic in its own right, brings together enduring, influential works on the role of military power in foreign policy and international politics. Now in its eighth... -
Global Problems, Smart Solutions: Costs and Benefits by Bjorn Lomborg
Booksplease Price: £30.38Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money... -
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As One: Individual Action, Collective Power by James Quigley 9780241954003 [USED COPY]
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £5.47Our world is as much about cooperation as it is about conflict; as much about collaboration as competition. Yet our knowledge of collective behavior is still relatively slim. Leaders who have been... -
On Ethics and Economics: Conversations with Kenneth J. Arrow Kenneth J. Arrow (Stanford university) 9781138676060
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Part intellectual autobiography and part exposition of complex yet contemporary economic ideas, this lively conversation with renowned scholar and public intellectual Kenneth J. Arrow focuses on... -
On Nuclear Terrorism by Michael Levi 9780674032385
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £33.86Nuclear terrorism is such a disturbing prospect that we shy away from its details. Yet as a consequence, we fail to understand how best to defeat it. Michael Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism... -
Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability by Philip E. Auerswald
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £45.71In the wake of 9/11 and hurricane Katrina, executives and policymakers are increasingly motivated to reduce the vulnerability of social and economic systems to disasters. Most prior work on 'critical...