Games to Play and Games not to Play: Strategic Decisions via Extensions of Game Theory (Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, 469)

About My Teacher, Friend, and Coauthor—Joseph Agassi
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Contents
1 Introduction
	1.1 What is Game Theory?
	1.2 The Uses of Game Theory
	1.3 Game Theory and Peace
		1.3.1 On Trust and Information
	1.4 Equilibria
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2 Strategic Decisions
	2.1 Preface
	2.2 What is the Most Important Strategic Decision?
		2.2.1 What and Who Determines the Game?
	2.3 Conclusion
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3 Game Theory Encourages Peace
	3.1 Game Theory Peace and Democracy
		3.1.1 About Trust
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4 Game Theory for International Accords
	4.1 The Political Aspect of Game Theory
	4.2 A Comparison Between Our Approach and the Related Literature
	4.3 Additional Morals to Learn from Aumann’s Nobel Lecture (2005)
	4.4 Conclusion
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5 Game Theory and Social Science
	5.1 Game Theory and the Social Science I
	5.2 Preliminaries
	5.3 Part II
	5.4 Conclusion
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6 The Game Theory of the European Union Versus the Pax Romana
	6.1 Introduction: The Prisoner’s Dilemma Versus the Stag Hunt
		6.1.1 The Repeated Version
	6.2 Against the Vision of the Pax Romana
	6.3 In Favor of the Vision of the European Union
	6.4 Conditional Generosity Versus Conditional Aggressiveness
	6.5 A Game-Theoretical View of Brexit
	6.6 Conclusion
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7 Playing the Game of International Law
	7.1 Preface
	7.2 Introduction
	7.3 Historical Background
	7.4 Kissinger Versus Keynes in Game Theoretical Perspective
	7.5 From Negotiation to Litigation in Peace Processes
	7.6 Realist Negotiation Versus Negotiation in the Shadow of the Law
		7.6.1 The Distributive Effect
		7.6.2 The Morals from the Above Example
		7.6.3 The Reduction of Terrorism Effect
		7.6.4 The Effect on the Chance to Achieve Peace
	7.7 Conclusion
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8 Mutual Threat: The Cold War Game
	8.1 The Cold War After 1949
	8.2 The Repeated Chicken Game Versus the One-Time Chicken Game
	8.3 A Game with Complete Information Versus Games with Incomplete Information
	8.4 The Sequential Chicken Game Versus the Chicken Game
	8.5 A Game with a Possibility to Coordinate by Communication and Agreements
	8.6 The Mad
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9 Equilibria of War and Peace: Diverse Options of Cooperation
	9.1 Preface
	9.2 What is a Game?
	9.3 Nash Equilibria
	9.4 The Hostile Prisoner’s Dilemma
	9.5 Other Equilibria
	9.6 Game Theory as Social Science
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10 The Game Not Chosen
	10.1 Preface
	10.2 Motivation
	10.3 Definitions
	10.4 The Game Not Chosen
	10.5 New Equilibria
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11 Cooperative Game Theory Mobilized for Peace
	11.1 Preface
	11.2 The Map of the Possible Games
	11.3 The Current State of Cooperative Game Theory
	11.4 About the Need for Clarifications in Cooperative Game Theory
	11.5 Conclusions
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12 A General Theory of Choice
	12.1 Theory of Choice
		12.1.1 Preface
	12.2 Introduction
		12.2.1 When to Accept a Proposal?
	12.3 How to Choose?
	12.4 Opportunity Cost Theory and a Proposal for Improvement Upon It
	12.5 Game Theory
	12.6 Decision Theory
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13 Toward Optimistic Future
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