Three-Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics - Joshua S. Goldstein - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226301594 - May 11, 1990
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Three-Way Street: Strategic Reciprocity in World Politics 1st edition


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How can the world's most powerful nations cooperate despite their conflicting interests? In Three-Way Street, Joshua S. Goldstein and John R. Freeman analyze the complex intersection defined by relations among the United States, the Soviet Union, and China over the past forty years.

The authors demonstrate that three major schools of international relations theory?all game-theoretic, psychological, and quantitative-empirical approaches?have all advocated a strategy that employs cooperative initiatives and reciprocal responses in order to elicit cooperation from other countries. Critics have questioned whether such approaches can model how countries actually behave, but Goldstein and Freeman provide a wealth of detailed empirical evidence showing the existence and effectiveness of strategic reciprocity among the three countries between 1948 and 1989. Specifically, they establish that relations among the three countries have improved in recent decades through a "two steps forward, one step back" pattern. Their innovative and remarkably accessible synthesis of leading theoretical perspectives brilliantly illuminates the nature and workings of international cooperation.


254 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released May 11, 1990
ISBN13 9780226301594
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 254
Dimensions 231 × 154 × 19 mm   ·   350 g
Language English  

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