Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Brinkmanship is the ostensible escalation of threats to achieve one's aims. The word was probably coined, on the model of Stephen Potter's "gamesmanship", [citation needed] by the American politician Adlai Stevenson in his criticism of the philosophy described as "going to the brink" during an interview with US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during the Eisenhower administration. [2]
The game of chicken, also known as the hawk-dove game or snowdrift game, [1] is a model of conflict for two players in game theory.The principle of the game is that while the ideal outcome is for one player to yield (to avoid the worst outcome if neither yields), individuals try to avoid it out of pride, not wanting to look like "chickens".
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This category deals with military strategy for the use of nuclear weapons, in particular during ... Brinkmanship; C. Cost ...
The strategy is also provocable because it provides immediate retaliation for those who compete. Finally, it is forgiving as it immediately produces cooperation should the competitor make a cooperative move. The implications of the tit-for-tat strategy have been of relevance to conflict research, resolution and many aspects of applied social ...
With Republicans poised to re-take control of one or both houses of Congress in the midterm elections, Democrats are scrambling to to find a way to avert a debt-ceiling fight that threatens to ...
Galahad at Blandings is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 31 December 1964 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the title The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood, and in the United Kingdom on 26 August 1965 by Herbert Jenkins, London.
Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems pulled back from the brink of a contentious libel trial with a little assist from overseas
Johnny Depp's attorneys are looking back at his tricky testimony during his trial with Amber Heard.. Two of the actor's lawyers, Benjamin Chew and Jessica Meyers, shed light on the 2022 Virginia ...