it can escalate to war. If it is common knowledge that the countries are strategically rational, then the only … pretend to be crazy. This leads to war with positive probability. In addition to being qualitatively different from the …

The authors analyze a bargaining model of war that incorporates both commitment problems due to shifting power and … asymmetric information. Four results emerge when both bargaining problems are present. First, in contrast to asymmetric … information models, the resolution of uncertainty through fighting can lead to the continuation of war rather than its termination …

combines stages of bargaining with stages where one side has the ability to impose surrender on the other. Under uncertainty … and incomplete information, in the unique equilibrium of the game, long confrontations occur: war arises when reality …. Bargaining proposals that are rejected initially might eventually be accepted after several periods of confrontation. We provide …

domestic production in the first stage and subsequently engage in peace negotiations trying to avoid war. War is costly and war … those involving war. The two players will build more arms in any peace equilibrium than in the (unique) war equilibrium …

In the past four decades scholars have produced a large literature on the relationship between territory and war. What … is clear is that territory has been and will continue to be a core issue in explaining the escalation and onset of war …

€œBargaining and the Nature of War†(Smith and Stam 2004). In that article, the authors constructed a model of bargaining between two …, should a war between them continue to a decisive conclusion. The players' divergent beliefs make up one of the fundamental … potential causes of war in the model. Fey and Ramsay argue that Smith and Stam's departure from the standard common priors …

recent work on the relation between bargaining and war to a three-state setting where coalitions are possible. I show that if …

dynamic games in incomplete information. Main result shows that countries behavior depends especially on war costs and on … country military power. There are many applications of these types of models, like in Israel - Palestinian war, recent Russian …

preferences over the resort to war and when they cannot commit to implement inherited policies. How, then, does the expected … behavior of an incumbent leader's successor affect crisis bargaining in the present? I analyze a leader-centric model of crisis … bargaining in which (a) the distributive outcomes of crises affect political survival, (b) leadership turnover implies the …