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Steaming in the Dark? : Rules, Rivals, and the British Navy, 1860-1913

Stoll, Richard J. · 1992

WASTE classifies this as Negative / Null Result Report · AI classification, approximate

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The finding, in one line

The empirical literature on arms races has often failed to find strong evidence of the existence of arms races among "obvious" dyads.

Abstract (excerpt)

The empirical literature on arms races has often failed to find strong evidence of the existence of arms races among "obvious" dyads. In this article it is argued that if we assume that decision makers use simple rules and concentrate on…

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Metadata source: CORE · DOI 10.1177/0022002792036002003.