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A chicken game is a situation where two states engage in brinkmanship even though the ideal solution is for one state to yield to the other. For example, the United States and the USSR risked global nuclear war to protect relatively minor strategic interests during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
A Dictionary of Military Architecture: Fortification and Fieldworks from the Iron Age to the Eighteenth Century by Stephen Francis Wyley, drawings by Steven Lowe; Victorian Forts glossary Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. A more comprehensive version has been published as A Handbook of Military Terms by David Moore at the same site
The conciliation process begins when both parties agree to engage in it as a method of resolving a dispute. [1] There are multiple uses for this form of alternative dispute resolution including transnational intellectual property, [2] legislative assemblies, [3] peace efforts, [4] and other areas of community concern.
A schedule is said to be conflict-serializable when the schedule is conflict-equivalent to one or more serial schedules. Equivalently, a schedule is conflict-serializable if and only if its precedence graph is acyclic when only committed transactions are considered. Note that if the graph is defined to also include uncommitted transactions ...
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In policy debate, an agent counterplan is a counterplan that proposes to do affirmative's plan (or part of it) with another agent. [1] For example, if the affirmative plan were: "The USFG should send troops to Liberia" an agent counterplan would be "France should send troops to Liberia."
Patients are typically offered testing if they have either a personal or family history of cancer that meets certain criteria, Zakalik adds. Those criteria have broadened over the last few years ...
Confrontation may occur between individuals, or between larger groups. Because groups are composed of multiple individuals, with each member having their own specific triggers for a violent response to a perceived provocation, risk factors which "may not be sufficient individually to explain collective violence, in combination [can] create conditions that may precipitate aggressive ...