This is an influential book written during the cold war addressing the concept of deterrence. Schelling is professor of economics at harvard and acting director of harvards. Unlike in arms and influence, schellings analysis here is explicitly. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. An essay on thomas schellings arms and influence classics of. Tom schelling is the most significant nuclear strategist of the past halfcentury. This book shows how schelling s thinking is much more than a reaction to the tensions of the cold war. Even a genius such as clausewitz did not clearly perceive the nonzerosum nature of war, the fundamental property around which schelling builds his models of cooperation and conflict reflections on thomas schelling1. To ask other readers questions about arms and influence, please sign up. In arms and influence, schelling developed some of the ideas that he had presented in the strategy of conflict, especially his concept of credible threat in bargaining and other ideas relevant to. Schelling, 9780300143379, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Coercion, broadly speaking, is the use of threats to influence. Thomas schelling, in arms and influence and his other influential book the.
Learning from schellings strategy of conflict request pdf. Schelling is professor of economics at harvard and acting director of harvards center for international affairs. The author concentrates in this book on the way in which military capabilitiesreal or imaginedare used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. With his new preface and foreword, schelling demonstrates that in a world facing the threat of nuclear terrorism and belligerent states such as. View notes schelling 1966 arms and influence, chapter 1. Information warfare campaigns of this kindcombining data stolen from. Schellings profound analysis of the impact of nuclear weapons on diplomacy and international relations is timeless and essential reading. Schelling says, bargaining power, and the exploitation of this power, for good or evil, to preserve peace or to threaten war, is diplomacythe diplomacy of violence.
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