Arms and influence / Thomas C. Schelling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016, Author.

Contributor:

Slaughter, Anne-Marie, 1958-

Series:

Veritas Paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages).

Edition:

Veritas paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York Times Book Review Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities—real or imagined—are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter’s new introduction to the work shows how Schelling’s framework—conceived of in a time of superpowers and mutually assured destruction—still applies to our multipolar world, where wars are fought as much online as on the ground.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO THE VERITAS PAPERBACK EDITION: I SING OF ARMS AND THE MAN

PREFACE TO THE 2008 EDITION

PREFACE

1. THE DIPLOMACY OF VIOLENCE

2. THE ART OF COMMITMENT

3. THE MANIPULATION OF RISK

4. THE IDIOM OF MILITARY ACTION

5. THE DIPLOMACY OF ULTIMATE SURVIVAL

6. THE DYNAMICS OF MUTUAL ALARM

7. THE DIALOGUE OF COMPETITIVE ARMAMENT

AFTERWORD: AN ASTONISHING SIXTY YEARS: THE LEGACY OF HIROSHIMA

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2020)

ISBN:

9780300253481

0300253486

OCLC:

1143635143