Arms and Influence

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.