TY - BOOK ID - 135909222 TI - Arms and influence AU - Schelling, Thomas C. AU - Slaughter, Anne-Marie PY - 2020 SN - 0300253486 9780300253481 PB - New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Military policy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135909222 AB - “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. ER -