Synthesized answer
The provided passages do not contain information about what questions remain unanswered in the book "Arms and Influence".
The passages describe the book's focus on how military capabilities are used as bargaining power in diplomacy, particularly in the context of nuclear weapons and the "diplomacy of violence" [1]. They highlight Schelling's view of military power as a threat and a tool for negotiation rather than solely for victory [1]. The passages also mention the book's continued relevance in a multipolar world [2]. However, they do not list any specific questions that are left unanswered by the author's work.
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Title: Arms and influence by Thomas C. Schelling Description: 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 capabilites - real or imagined - are used, skillfully or…
hose 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. Categories: Political Science Pages:…