A Game Worth the Candle

Download or read book A Game Worth the Candle written by Marilee Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States is currently negotiating with the Soviet Union and 33 other nations in the Stockholm Conference on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. This study finds that the United States has been somewhat more successful in achieving its objectives than the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union thus far has little to show for its efforts but continues to participate because withdrawing might seriously damage its position in the European public opinion polls. Effective U.S. stratagems include patient adherence to "tough" proposals, strong resistance to deadline pressure, informal consultations with other delegations, and judicious use of a public commitment to a position. The United States has been less successful with stratagems involving anti-Soviet propaganda, either as a tool or an objective, and with linkage of external events to progress in the negotiations."--Rand abstracts.