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Arms and influence / with a new preface and afterword by Thomas C. Schelling.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military policy.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In this landmark book, Nobel laureate Thomas C. Schelling considers the ways in which military capabilities-real or imagined-are used as bargaining power. This edition contains a new preface by the author where he considers the book's relevance over forty years after its first publication. Included as an afterword is the text of Professor Schelling's Nobel acceptance speech, in which he reflects upon the global taboo that has emerged against nuclear weapons since Hiroshima.
- Contents:
- The diplomacy of violence
- The art of commitment
- The manipulation of risk
- The idiom of military action
- The diplomacy of ultimate survival
- The dynamics of mutual alarm
- The dialogue of competitive armament
- Afterword: An astonishing sixty years : the legacy of Hiroshima.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1966.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300186703
- 0300186703
- Publisher Number:
- 99981193313
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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