Tacit Bargaining, Arms Races, and Arms Control

Author/Contributor(s):	Downs, George W
Publisher:	University of Michigan Press
Date:	01/01/1990
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

When most people, including social scientists, reflect on the ways that nations resolve their differences, they tend to think in terms of polar alternatives: war versus negotiation. This perspective ignores a third path: tacit bargaining, which is applicable, as this book shows, to a wide variety of international issues and is especially germane to the problem of treaty maintenance.