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Arms and Influence.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International Relations.
- Local Subjects:
- International Relations.
- 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:
- 1 The Diplomacy of Violence 1
- 2 The Art of Commitment 35
- 3 The Manipulation of Risk 92
- 4 The Idiom of Military Action 126
- 5 The Diplomacy of Ultimate Survival 190
- 6 The Dynamics of Mutual Alarm 221
- 7 The Dialogue of Competitive Armament 260
- Afterword: An Astonishing Sixty Years:
- The Legacy of Hiroshima 287.
- ISBN:
- 9780300143379
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