Tacit Bargaining, Arms Races, and Arms Control

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Downs (politics and public affairs, Princeton) and Rocke (graduate school of management, U. of Calif. at Davis) define the nature and model the theory of tacit bargaining--the alternative to formal negotiations and to war which takes place when a state uses actions, rather than rhetoric, to effect an outcome that can only be achieved through some measure of joint voluntary behavior (thus differentiating it from coercion). as part of the mixture of negotiation may be increasing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)