-player bargaining games in which present outcomes affect future power, and show three main results: (i) in a two-player negotiation, war … never occurs in equilibrium, unless states value the future too differently; (ii) with three players, war can occur in …

"Before the Second World War, the states of Washington and Oregon were thinly populated economic backwaters of the …, for their economic health. That all changed during World War II and the Cold War. By the dawn of the twenty-first century … as the region's mainstay industries. In Washington, especially, a Cold War-driven military and national security state …