The Scholarship of Arild Underdal

Knut Midgaard is professor emeritus in Political Science at the University of Oslo. His book (in Norwegian) Strategic Thought: Some Game-Theoretic Topics with a Special Regard to International Politics (1965) addresses basic problems in game theory and its applications. It was followed up by Communication and Strategy (1970), which outlines and discusses a theoretic framework for the study of political “interlocutions” (debates, negotiations, etc.), exploiting game-theory on the one hand and J.L. Austin's speech act theory on the other. His publications include studies on security policy and ethics, negotiations on the regulation of pelagic whaling, university politics, democratic theory, and the history of ideas.

I am grateful to Jon Hovi, Tora Skodvin and Raino Malnes for good help and valuable comments on earlier versions of my manuscript.