Analyzes the nature of international disagreements and conflict resolution in terms of game theory and non-zero-sum games.

Military Reading List: Army, 2017. "1980 edition"--Preface.

Preface to the 1980 edition -- I. Elements of a theory of strategy. 1. The retarded science of international strategy -- 2. An essay on bargaining -- 3. Bargaining, communication, and limited war -- II. A reorientation of game theory. 4. Toward a theory of interdependent decision -- 5. Enforcement, communication, and strategic moves -- 6. Game theory and experimental research -- III. Strategy with a random ingredient. 7. Randomization of promises and threats -- 8. The threat that leaves something to chance -- IV. Surprise attack : a study in mutual distrust. 9. The reciprocal fear of surprise attack -- 10. Surprise attack and disarmament -- Appendices. A. Nuclear weapons and limited war -- B. For the abandonment of symmetry in game theory -- C. Re-interpretation of a solution concept for "noncooperative" games.