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The Power to Coerce
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Pages: 53
Authors: David C. Gompert
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-02-25 - Publisher: Rand Corporation

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Mounting costs, risks, and public misgivings of waging war are raising the importance of U.S. power to coerce (P2C). The best P2C options are financial sanction
Coercion, Survival, and War
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Phil Haun
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-01 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survival—but not vice versa. It is therefore t
Bombing to Win
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Robert A. Pape
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-11 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provid
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
Language: en
Pages: 349
Authors: Todd S. Sechser
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-02 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? This book argues that they are useful for deterrence but not for offensive purposes.
Military Coercion and US Foreign Policy
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Melanie W. Sisson
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book examines the use of military force as a coercive tool by the United States, using lessons drawn from the post-Cold War era (1991–2018). The volume r