The strategy of conflict / Thomas C. Schelling.

"With a new preface by the author"--cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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