Consider what Thomas Schelling means by the “diplomacy of...

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Consider what Thomas Schelling means by the "diplomacy of violence". Why does he draw distinctions between coercion and brute force? Why does say that the use of violence should be strategic? Can you give an example? According to James Fearon, why are realist assumptions about anarchy inadequate as a cause of war? If war is costly, whyT can't states bargain their way around it? How do problems of private information (informational asymmetries), commitment problems, and issue indivisihilities add to our causal understanding of war? According to Robert Jervis, what are security dilemmas and how do they often lead rational actors into conflict?

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