Krieg und Frieden in Europa: eine Rolle für „Brinkmanship“?

Klaus Beckmann

doi:10.2478/wd-2025-0071

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Krieg und Frieden in Europa: eine Rolle für „Brinkmanship“?

Wirtschaftsdienst

Volume 105 (2025): Issue 4 (April 2025)

By: Klaus Beckmann

Open Access

|May 2025

Abstract

This article analyses aspects of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in its international context from a game theory perspective, with particular attention to the possible use of the brinkmanship strategy by US President Donald Trump.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/wd-2025-0071 | Journal eISSN: 1613-978X | Journal ISSN: 0043-6275

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Language: German

Page range: 267 - 272

Published on: May 2, 2025

Published by: ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 12 issues per year

Keywords:

C72,

N40

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Political economics,

Microeconomics,

Macroeconomics,

Public finance and fiscal theory,

Economic policy

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