Present anti-terrorist policy concentrates almost exclusively on deterrence. It seeks to fend off terrorism by raising … and induces in some cases even more terrorism. This is, in particular, the case if deterrence policy induces a …

rationality. The analysis begins with the development of modern decision theory, covers the interwar debates over the role of … that the notion of rationality suffered a profound transformation that reduced it to a formal property of consistency. Such … of game and decision theory …