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Arms and influence / by Thomas C. Schelling ; with a new introduction by Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Schelling, Thomas C., 1921-2016 (author.). Slaughter, Anne-Marie, 1958- (writer of introduction.).

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

Record details

ISBN: 0300253486
ISBN: 9780300253481
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 312 pages)
Edition: Veritas paperback edition.
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	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
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	In English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.