U3. Answer the following questions for parts (a) and (b). (i) What are the risks

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U3. Answer the following questions for parts (a) and (b).

(i) What are the risks the two sides face?

(ii) How do those risks increase during the course of the execution of the brinkmanship threat?

(a) In the 1941 movie classic The Maltese Falcon, the hero, Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), is the only person who knows the location of the immensely valuable gem-studded falcon figure, and the villain, Caspar Gutman (Sydney Greenstreet), is threatening to torture him for that information. Spade points out that torture is useless unless the threat of death lies behind it, and Gutman cannot afford to kill Spade, because then the information dies with him. Therefore he may as well not bother with the threat of torture. Gutman replies,

Explanation / Answer

part(a)

1.)risks of two sides of face are Sam Spade may lose his life if he did not tell him the path of gems

and Caspar Gutman did not risk sam spades life as he is the only person through to the gems

2.)as brankmanship threat is limits of safety sam spade if he did not tell him the path he may not be patiennce for a long time and caspar gutman do know as sam spade ready to die but not to tell the path

part(b)

1.)as  tsar

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