This book introduces reliability and risk analysis in the face of threats by intelligent agents. Specifically, game-theoretic models are developed for identifying optimal and/or equilibrium defense and attack strategies in systems of varying complexity.
This study investigates strategies to provide countries with an incentive to accede, agree and comply to an international environmental agreement. The author shows that game theory can become a powerful analytical tool when real world restrictions are integrated into an appropriate model.
An Aspen Food Science Text Series Book. All of the essential information that you have come to rely on in the widely-acclaimed 'Principles of Food Sanitation' by Norman G. Marriott is now available to you in a simplified, practical, and updated format. Providing a step-by-step, hands-on approach, this incomparable text offers useful and interesting information on food sanitation at all stages o…
"Now in its second edition the Key Guide surveys the most influential thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. With a new introduction by the author as well as two new sections on Phenomenology and the Post-Human, full cross referencing and up-to-date guides to major primary and secondary texts, this is an essential read for anyone interested in the thinking that drives today's wor…
Containing essays by leading figures in the field, this volume focuses on the use of 'necessary condition counterfactuals' in explaining two key events in 20th century history, the start of the First World War and the end of the Cold War.
Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century. Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellec…
Explores the complex issue of international ethics in the two dominant schools of thought in international relations, Liberalism and Realism. This book is of interest to students and researchers of politics, philosophy, ethics and international relations.
Diplomacy does not take place simply between states but wherever people live in different groups. Paul Sharp argues that the demand for diplomacy, and the need for the insights of diplomatic theory, are on the rise. In contrast to conventional texts which use international relations theories to make sense of what diplomacy and diplomats do, this book explores what diplomacy and diplomats can co…
This book contextually re-examines the history of international relations in order to explore how the discipline has imported and employed the concept of culture.