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Thomas Crombie Schelling est un économiste américain, ainsi qu'un professeur de politique étrangère, de sécurité nationale, de stratégie nucléaire et de contrôle des armes à la School of Public Policy de l'université du Maryland à College Park.

Il partage avec Robert Aumann le prix de la Banque de Suède en sciences économiques en mémoire d'Alfred Nobel en 2005, pour avoir : « amélioré notre compréhension des mécanismes de conflit et de coopération par l’analyse de la théorie des jeux.»

Il est connu pour avoir notamment théorisé la « diplomatie de la violence » qui consiste à coupler toute menace de représailles ou d’interdiction avec la promesse de retenue si l’agresseur abandonne ses ambitions, en particulier dans le domaine de la stratégie nucléaire. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. avril 1921 – 13. décembre 2016
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“What this book is about is a kind of analysis that is characteristic of a large part of the social sciences, especially the more theoretical part. That kind of analysis explores the relation between the behavior of individuals who compromise some social aggregate, and the characteristics of the aggregate.These situations, in which people's behavior or people's choices depend on the behavior or choices of other people, are the ones that usually don't permit any simple summation or extrapolation of the aggregates. To make that connection we usually have to look at the system of interaction between individuals and their environment, that is, between individuals and other individuals or between individuals and the collectivity.”

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Micromotives and Microbehavior (1978).

“The next possessors of nuclear weapons may be Iran, North Korea, or possibly some terrorist bodies. Is there any hope that they will have absorbed the nearly universal inhibition against the use of nuclear weapons, or will at least be inhibited by the recognition that the taboo enjoys widespread acclaim?”

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Nobel Prize lecture (2005)

“Arms control is so often identified with limitations on the possession or deployment of weapons that it is often overlooked that this reciprocated investment in non-nuclear capability was a remarkable instance of unacknowledged but reciprocated arms control.”

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Nobel Prize lecture (2005)

“The essence of these tactics is some voluntary but irreversible sacrifice of freedom of choice. They rest on the paradox that the power to constrain an adversary may depend on the power to bind oneself; that, in bargaining, weakness is often strength, freedom may be freedom to capitulate, and to burn bridges behind one may suffice to undo an opponent.”

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An essay on bargaining (The strategy of conflict)

“The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.”

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Nobel Prize lecture (2005)

“That means that in the course of twenty years, Americans in the strategic nuclear business have gone from considering the no city strategy a preposterous one to one that is so obvious that it's taken for granted that the Soviets reciprocate the general idea. Whether this is based on any knowledge that the Soviets actually do, I don't know. My own feeling is that this is an idea that made much more sense to the Soviets than to the Americans. I think the Americans typically have rather formal, grand and honorable ideas about warfare and I think Soviet leaders are much more aware of the role of violence, brutality, ugly diplomacy, both in their internal politics and in dealing with other nations, and I don't think they have nearly as much traditional baggage about the way to use military force in war and I think if they saw that it suited their purpose to treat American cities as hostages in order to keep us from attacking their homeland populations, it might appeal to them much more quickly than it would appeal to a typical American.”

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Interview with Thomas Schelling http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/wpna-ebd606-interview-with-thomas-schelling-1986 (1986).

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