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Power Corrupts, Corruption Empowers
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
Why It's So Hard to Read a Leader's Intentions
We really can’t tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves.
How I Poured Cold Water on a Nuclear Iran
People were talking about a third world war, which thank God didn’t happen.
Almost All Strategic Problems Can Be Solved with Game Theory
I think almost all strategic problems could at least be improved upon if people would do more careful game theoretic analysis.
Altruism Gets You Killed
There are people who throw themselves on a live hand grenade to save their buddies and these folks don’t rise to power.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Silver Professor of Politics at New York University. He is an expert on international conflict, foreign policy formation, and nation building. His current research focuses on the links between political institutions, economic growth, and political change. He is also investigating the causes and consequences of international conflict as well as national security policy forecasting and analysis.
Using a proprietary mathematical formula that takes into account the self-interests of and alliances among actors in key business and political questions (i.e. whether Iran will build nuclear weapons), de Mesquita predicts the future for businesses and organizations such as the CIA.
His most recent books include The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics (PublicAffairs, 2011) and The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future (Random House, Inc., 2009)Additionally, he has authored more than one hundred articles and fourteen books on politics, as well as one published novel, The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge (Ohio State University Press, 2001).
