Arms and Influence"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
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 |
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