IN A SCENE REMINISCENT OF THE COLD WAR, U.S F-15 jet fighters have today been tailing Russian bombers in the Arctic skies. According to a report from the Interfax news agency "Russia has stepped up its military presence in the Arctic, as international competition and tension over the resource-rich region has increased."
DISPUTES OVER RESOURCES are the most common cause of war. In this case, which is concerned among other things with competing claims to undersea oil exploration rights, Nobel Prize winning game theorist Robert Aumann has provided a neat solution in the form of "equal division of the contested sum" - i.e. agree by negotiation on sovereign rights to specific areas, and where there is disagreement, divide the disputed area equally among the disputants.
AMERICA AND RUSSIA are not the only nations involved, but the principle still holds true, in personal matters as much as in the international arena. Try it. As I show in "Rock, Paper, Scissors", it's mathematically proven to be the fairest way!
FOR MORE BACKGROUND, see my November 9 post:
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