# Strategic Interaction **Entity class:** Book **Author:** [[wiki/Erving Goffman|Erving Goffman]] **Publication year:** 1969 ## Definition _Strategic Interaction_ analyzes information contests among actors who observe, conceal, reveal, and manipulate expressions. Its examples include spies, informants, and counterintelligence relationships. ## Relationships - **develops:** [[wiki/Expression Games|Expression Games]]. - **extends:** [[wiki/The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life|The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life]] into explicitly strategic settings. - **applies to:** [[wiki/Counterintelligence|Counterintelligence]], cover, and [[wiki/Legend (Intelligence)|legend]] maintenance. - **source context:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]].