Conflict Among Nations

Bargaining, Decision Making, and System Structure in International Crises

Glenn Herald Snyder, Paul Diesing

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691600529, 9780691056647
• eBook ISBN: 9781400871186
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

How do nations act in a crisis? This book seeks to answer that question both theoretically and historically. It tests and synthesizes theories of political behavior by comparing them with the historical record. The authors apply theories of bargaining, game theory, information processing, decision-making, and international systems to case histories of sixteen crises that occurred during a seventy-five year period. The result is a revision and integration of diverse concepts and the development of a new empirical theory of international conflict.

Originally published in 1978.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Preface
• Glossary
• I. International Crises and International Theory
• II. Formal Models of Bargaining
• III. Crisis Bargaining: Strategies and Tactics
• IV. Information Processing
• V. Decision Making
• VI. Crises and International Systems
• VII Summary and Synthesis
• Appendix: Case Summaries
• Index