Games

David Blagden is University Lecturer in International Security and Strategy at the University of Exeter, affiliated to the Strategy and Security Institute within the Department of Politics. He was previously the Adrian Research Fellow in International Politics at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, where he remains an Associate Member. He obtained his D.Phil. at the University of Oxford, and has published in journals such as International Affairs, International Security, and International Studies Review. Mark de Rond is Professor of Organisational Ethnography at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School and a Fellow of Darwin College. He is the author/editor of eight previous books and many journal articles on topics spanning the fields of organisational science, corporate strategy, management, and leadership. His ethnographic studies include long stints with British military medics in Afghanistan, elite rowers in Cambridge, biochemists in Oxford, and comedians in London; he has also rowed the navigable part of the Amazon. Mark gained his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and consults widely for a variety of private firms, public bodies, and media outlets.

• Introduction David Blagden and Mark de Rond; 1. Personal principles in the political game Sayeeda Warsi; 2. The game of crime and punishment Nicola Padfield; 3. Wittgenstein's games A. C. Grayling; 4. Games in sports David Brailsford; 5. Losing the 'new great game' Frank Ledwidge; 6. Games for the brain Barbara J. Sahakian, Camilla d'Angelo and George Savulich; 7. Games animals play Nicholas B. Davies; Afterword. The game theory of conflict: the prisoners' dilemma – an unsympathetic critique Thomas C. Schelling.