–defense balance; appropriation and exchange theory, wherein appropriation undermines the security of exchange at the same time that … exchange shapes the incentives for appropriation; experiments in peace economics, most notably the path-breaking prisoner …

First-strike stability in a multipolar world measures the incentives of all major nuclear weapon countries, in all … strategic nuclear weapons in the world, first-strike stability was an important criterion for assessing defensive deployments of … complicates the overall situation. The main thrust of this paper is to investigate the first-strike stability implications of the …

producers adopt one of the two alternate production and marketing technologies — efficient and inefficient. We examine stability … equilibrium coalition forms, and (iii) stability of coalitions. They highlight the dynamics between the number of coalition …, and the coalition stability related conditions need not imply better profitability for one type of producer vis-à-vis the …

stability of the grand coalition of all countries, depending on the stability concept used. In particular, the core-stability …