George Woodrow Downs, Jr. (August 6, 1946 – January 21, 2015)[1] was an American political scientist and pioneer of the application of noncooperative game theory to international politics.[2] He was a professor of politics at New York University, where he served as chair of the political science department (1998–2001), Dean of Social Science (2001–2009), and later as the Bernhardt Denmark Professor of International Affairs. Before that, he had served as Boswell Professor of Peace and War at Princeton University from 1987 to 1998. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2014. His books included The Search for Government Efficiency and Optimal Imperfection.
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