Respites or Resolutions?
Respites or Resolutions?
Recurring Crises and the Origins of War
Historians disagree whether World War I represented a “war by design” or a miscalculation, an accident that need not have happened. If the latter, scholars observe that recurrent crises might become difficult to resolve, because powers change their positions after a loss. The outbreak of World War I showed that repetitive “chicken games” are likely unstable.
Keywords: Chicken game, Bargaining theory of war, Prisoner’s Dilemma, Win-stay, lose-shift, Assumption of the independence of events
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