Soviet-American Bargaining Behavior in the Postwar Disarmament Negotiations

To begin an analysis of the meandering course of the postwar disarmament negotiations with a bargaining model is perhaps the height of optimism. Some would doubt the utility of such a model because they regard the negotiations primarily as parallel monologues in which the basic appeals are made to the galleries of world public opinion rather than across the table to the opposition. It further has been asserted that the