Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Editorial Advisory Board; Foreword; Predicting Crises and Monitoring their Evolution; The Costs of Conflict and Deterrence: A UK Perspective; Determinants of Militarized Interstate Disputes; Why Bombs Fall and Why Bombs Fail; A General Explanation of the Cuban Missile Crisis |
Summary |
Peace Science explores the conditions under which cooperation, as opposed to competition, between actors can lead to the peaceful resolution of problems between individuals, communities, nations, regional entities and non-governmental organizations. Scholars working in Peace Science typically borrow theories and methods from other social sciences including catastrophe theory, chaos theory, decision science, game theory, and coalition and bargaining theory. Peace Economics is an important subfield of Peace Science, which addresses the subject from a purely economic point of view; for example, th |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Peace.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
|
|
Peace
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
Author |
Chatterji, Manas, 1937- editor.
|
ISBN |
9781443898508 |
|
1443898503 |
|