Strategic Conflict offers a research-based, accessible analysis of how people can manage conflict productively. Moving beyond the basics of conflict, it examines interpersonal situations in which conflict occurs and promotes strategic communicative responses based on the latest theoretical research. Daniel J. Canary and his colleagues add personal observations, media examples, and samples of actual interaction to provide concrete illustrations of the research findings. This comprehensive volume provides students with the tools to understand conflict in real-world contexts.
'In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling's work opens to rational analysis a crucial field of politics, the international politics of threat, or as the current term goes, of deterrence.
This book focuses on the management of these internal conflicts within business organizations.
"This book is refreshing, innovative and important for several reasons.
As these stories demonstrate, this new model for working with enduring conflict offers hope for dealing with our struggles as social beings.
Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail.
This comprehensive volume provides students with the tools to understand conflict in real-world contexts.
This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.
No background in mathematics needed, but some knowledge of game theory useful.
Who Wins? by Patricia L. Sullivan argues that the key to understanding strategic success in war lies in the nature of the political objectives states pursue through the use of military force.
Woodward asserts that President Bush in 2003 wanted to end the war on Iraq on an aircraft carrier to remind the public of Japan's capitulation in 1945 (Woodward, Bob, 2006. State of Denial. Bush at War, Part III, New York: Simon ...