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In this dissertation I present a tractable two-level bargaining game involving three actors: a leader; a domestic actor that is able to constrain the leader; and an unconstrained foreign state. The actors attempt to divide a good or to settle a policy conflict, I study how varia…

In an image from Robert Putnam's two-level-game metaphor, "national political leaders" from nation-states engaged in international negotiations, sit astride two game boards to balance the requirements of playing the international and domestic games simultaneously and effectively…