The Dynamics of Deterrence

by Frank C. Zagare

The value of a theory of deterrence lies in its ability to reconstruct and predict strategic behavior accurately and consistently. Contemporary scholarship on deterrence has drawn upon decision models and classical game theory, with some success, to explain how deterrence works. But the field is marked by unconnected and sometimes contradictory hypotheses that may explain one type of situation while being inapplicable to another.

The Dynamics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226977633
• ISBN13: 9780226977638
• Release Date: September 1986
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"