High Five With Thomas Schelling Sep 23, 2008, 10:30am ... Cold War-era nuclear deterrence and global warming. Schelling was a central figure in Washington until ... strategy and game theory, ...

After spending nearly five decades as one of the world’s foremost contributors to the intellectual and practical development of an increasingly influential, ever-more-wide-ranging body of ...

But Schelling and his contemporaries did not develop deterrence theory to explain how to deal with nonnuclear states—and when officials tried to apply it that way, the results were poor. In 1964 and ...

Thomas C. Schelling and Robert Aumann are co-winners of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. The two worked independently to apply game theory to social and political problems. Robert Siegel speaks ...

Thomas C. Schelling, 84, an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland and Harvard University, and Robert J. Aumann, 75, an emeritus professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, used “game ...

John Nash, Thomas Schelling, John Harsanyi, Reinhard Selten, and Roger Myerson all received Nobel Prizes for discoveries involving new applications of game theory. Powell was among the first to apply ...

It also demonstrated the extraordinary value of the work of Thomas Schelling, an economist then at Harvard University, who used the relatively new tools of game theory to analyse the strategy of war.

Depending on the type of deterrence theory, the audience of declaratory policy may be different. For second wave deterrence theorist Thomas Schelling, the audience is the enemy power targeted for ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist and social scientist Thomas Schelling was one of the most important thinkers about game theory, an approach to modeling strategic interactions that has remade entire ...

Thomas Schelling . Deterrence and South China Sea Strategy: ... By using the “madman theory,” the U.S. and its allies could inject a degree of risk into China’s strategic calculus.

GEIST: One of the interesting implications of nuclear strategic theory, such as that articulated by Thomas Schelling back in the 1960s, is that it turns out that the more rational actor is not ...