Escalation
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Escalation is the phenomenon of something getting more intense step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, a war between states possessing weapons of mass destruction. Compare to escalator, a device that lifts something to a higher level. While the word escalation was used as early as in 1938, it was popularized during the Cold War by two[1] important books: On Escalation (Herman Kahn, 1965) and Escalation and the Nuclear Option (Bernard Brodie, 1966).
In psychology, escalation is a change in behavior, usually from stable or acceptable towards unstable or unacceptable.
In corporate usage, escalation is an act of informing people on the next (higher) management level about a problem or a situation, to get their attention and help.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
- De-escalation
- Cost escalation
- Conflict escalation
- Privilege escalation
- Irrational escalation
- Technological escalation
[edit] References
- ^ Freedman, Lawrence (1993). The evolution of nuclear strategy (2nd ed. ed.). New York: St Martin's press. pp. 198–199. ISBN 0312028431. http://books.google.com/books?id=ruAxF8SBR3IC&lpg=PR6&dq=%22The%20Impact%20of%20Atomic%20Weapons%20on%20Strategy%20and%20Tactics.%22&pg=PA198#v=onepage&q&f=false.
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