The Games of July: Explaining the Great War

by Frank C. Zagare

"Frank C. Zagare combines a deep command of historical scholarship and the sophisticated skills of an applied game theorist to develop and test a theory of why deterrence failed, catastrophically, in July 1914. . . . Zagare concludes with sage advice on how to avoid even more cataclysmic breakdowns in a nuclear world."
---Steven J. Brams, New York University

"Zagare's deft study of the origins of the First World War using his perfect deterrence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472051164
• ISBN13: 9780472051168
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"