Coercion
Subtitle: the power to hurt in international politics
By: edited by Kelly M. Greenhill, Peter Krause
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780190846336; 9780190846343
Subjects: International Security; Intervention (International law); International relations; Deterrence (Strategy)
Description: "A state's power to compel or deter other states to either act or refrain from acting has been a foundational source of world politics since the time of Thucydides. Yet the specific features of deterrence and compellence constantly change in accordance with historical development. In our own lifetimes, for instance, the rising significance of non-state actors and the increasing influence of regional powers have dramatically transformed international politics since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the existing literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw, whether implicitly or explicitly, upon assumptions and precepts formulated in a state-centric, bipolar world. Although contemporary coercion frequently features multiple coercers targeting state and non-state adversaries with non-military instruments of persuasion, most literature on coercion still focuses primarily on cases where a single state is trying to coerce another single state via traditional military means. In The Power to Hurt, the leading international relations scholars Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause have gathered together an eminent cast of contributors (e.g., Bob Art, Dan Drezner, Alex Downes, Erik Gartzke, and others) to produce what promises to be a field-shaping work on one of IR's most essential subjects: coercion, whether in the form of compellence, deterrence, or a mix of the two. The volume moves beyond these traditional premises and examines the critical issue of coercion in the 21st century, capturing fresh theoretical and policy relevant developments and drawing upon data and cases from across time and around the globe" --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause; title: Coercion: an analytical overview / Robert J. Art and Kelly M. Greenhill; title: Intelligence and coercion: a neglected connection / Austin Long; title: A bargaining theory of coercion / Todd S. Sechser; title: Airpower, sanctions, coercion and containment: when foreign policy objectives collide / Philip W. Haun; title: Step aside or face the consequences: explaining the success and failure of compellent threats to remove foreign leaders / Alexander B. Downes; title: Underestimating weak states and state sponsors: the case for base state coercion / Keren Fraiman; title: Coercion by movement: how power drove the success of the Eritrean insurgency, 1960-1993 / Peter Krause; title: Is technology the answer? the limits of combat drones in countering insurgents / James Igoe Walsh; title: Coercion through cyberspace: the stability-instability paradox revisited / Jon R. Lindsay and Erik Gartzke; title: Migration as a coercive weapon: new evidence from the Middle East / Kelly M. Greenhill; title: The strategy of coercive isolation / Timothy W. Crawford; title: Economic sanctions in theory and practice: how smart are they? / Daniel Drezner; title: Prices or power politics: when and why states coercively compete over resources / Jonathan Markowitz; title: Deliberate escalation: nuclear strategies to deter or to stop conventional attacks / Jasen J. Castillo; title: Threatening proliferation: the goldilocks principle of bargaining with nuclear latency / Tristan Volpe; title: Conclusion / Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause.