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
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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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