Thomas C. Schelling (1921–2016) was Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. He was corecipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of New America, former director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department, and former dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

“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“Of great value especially to people who are relative newcomers to the field. . . . It has, like everything of Schelling’s, some quite novel and original ideas.”—Bernard Brodie

Thomas C. Schelling (1921–2016) was Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. He was corecipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of New America, former director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department, and former dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

“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“Of great value especially to people who are relative newcomers to the field. . . . It has, like everything of Schelling’s, some quite novel and original ideas.”—Bernard Brodie

Thomas C. Schelling (1921–2016) was Distinguished University Professor, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. He was corecipient of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics. Anne-Marie Slaughter is president and CEO of New America, former director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department, and former dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

“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“Of great value especially to people who are relative newcomers to the field. . . . It has, like everything of Schelling’s, some quite novel and original ideas.”—Bernard Brodie