. "I think the people with the strongest nerves will be the winners," he said in 1958. "The people with weak nerves will go to the wall." Although Schelling's theory suggests that policymakers who use brinkmanship wisely could prevail without having to fight, in practice the EFTA00662756 record is mix

lassic work on brinkmanship, The Strategy of Conflict, seems -- in its Russian translation, perhaps -- to have found its way onto Putin's desk. As Schelling explains, brinkmanship "is the tactic of deliberately letting the situation get somewhat out of hand, just because its being out of hand may be int

n for emotions, such as love, which is closely related to the explanation first proffered by Frank (49) [precursory insight is given in the work by Schelling (50); also see the works by Hirshleiter (51). Pinker (35). and Winters (52)]. Love has the property that we behave altruistically toward our partn