Conflict and Defence: A General Theory (Torchbooks)

This book is an important contribution by a distinguished economist to the growing trend toward more rigorous theoretical analysis in the social sciences other than economics. It's purpose is to analyze social conflicts, and in particular international conflicts, by means of formal analytical models derived from a large number of different disciplines... The author makes very skillful use of simple geometrical tools of analysis and always restates his conclusions in literary terms, which should make this book basically accessible also to the social scientists with little mathematical background.