Arms and Influence With a New Preface and Afterword

Name: Arms and Influence With a New Preface and Afterword
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ISBN: 9780300143379

ISBN-10: 0300143370

ISBN-13: 9780300143379

Edition: 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Thomas C. Schelling

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Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as the science of victory. Today, however, in our world of nuclear weapons, military power is not so much exercised as threatened. It is, Mr. Schelling says, bargaining power, and the exploitation of this power, for good or evil, to preserve peace or to threaten war, is diplomacy-the diplomacy of violence. The author concentrates in this book on the way in which military capabilities-real or imagined-are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. He sees the steps taken by the U.S. during the Berlin and Cuban crises as not merely preparations for engagement, but as signals to an enemy,…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 11/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 5.13" wide x 8.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Thomas C. Schelling is Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Harvard University. He is co-recipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics.



Preface to the 2008 Edition


Preface



The Diplomacy of Violence



The Art of Commitment



The Manipulation of Risk



The Idiom of Military Action



The Diplomacy of Ultimate Survival



The Dynamics of Mutual Alarm



The Dialogue of Competitive Armament


Afterword: An Astonishing Sixty Years:


The Legacy of Hiroshima


Index