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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825525903321

Autore

Schelling Thomas C. <1921-2016, >

Titolo

Arms and influence / / Thomas C. Schelling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2020

ISBN

0-300-25348-6

Edizione

[Veritas paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages)

Collana

Veritas Paperbacks

Altri autori (Persone)

SlaughterAnne-Marie <1958->

Disciplina

355.0335

Soggetti

Military policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

“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.