Arms and Influence (Veritas Paperbacks)

by Anne–marie Slaughter (Author), Thomas C. Schelling (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2020

  $21.19

  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.
  
  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