Conflict and Defense

"This book is an important contribution by a distinguished economist to the growing trend toward more rigorous theoretical analysis in the social sciences other than economics. Its purpose is to analyze social conflicts, and in particular international conflicts, by means of formal analytical models derived from a large number of different disciplines...The author makes very skillful use of simple geometrical tools of analysis and always restates his conclusions in 'literary' terms, which should make this book basically accessible also to social scientists with little mathematical background." --The American Economic Review