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The telecom war between Reliance Jio and Airtel was only a preamble to the impending battle between Google and Jio. Nitish Kumar broke the mahagathbandhan while seeming to try to bend RJD to his will. All the schmoozing between Trump and Xi hasn’t reduced the North Korean nuclear threat. Could we have predicted these outcomes before they actually happened? Yes we could have—not with IQ or EQ, but with ‘Game Theoretic Quotient’. A new intelligence, a new way of looking at the world. Game Sutra highlights the underlying strategic considerations of entities as diverse as heads of state, bitcoin miners and CEOs of internet companies to explain their decisive choices. Immerse yourself in its heady mix of cogent fact and smart analysis to develop your ‘game theoretic quotient’. Your world will never be the same again.
War and Peace in the Heartlands of Maoism
War and Peace in the Heartlands of Maoism
The Maoist insurgency that began in central India in 1980 has steadily acquired power to the point that it was referred to as ‘India's greatest internal security threat’ by the then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2007. In the light of a new initiative for peace in the insurgency-hit region of central India, it is here argued that the empowerment of the people directly affected by the conflict can open up the possibility of lasting harmony, not just an uneasy truce.11
In his Nobel Memorial Prize lecture, entitled ‘War and Peace’,12 game theorist Robert Aumann emphasizes that characterizations of war as irrational may only serve to prolong conflict, and ...
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