Cheap threats : why the United States struggles to coerce weak states /

Cheap threats : why the United States struggles to coerce weak states /

The United States has a huge advantage in military power over other states, yet it is frequently unable to coerce weak adversary states with threats alone. Instead, over the past two decades, the leaders of Iraq, Haiti, Serbia, Afghanistan, and Libya have dismissed US threats and invited military cl...

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Author / Creator: Pfundstein Chamberlain, Dianne (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Military art and science > Decision making.
Strategy.
Military art and science > Decision making
Military policy
Military relations
Strategy
United States > Military policy.
United States > Military relations > Developing countries.
Developing countries > Military relations > United States.
Developing countries
United States
Online Access:Click here for full text at Project MUSE at Project MUSE
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : too cheap to compel
  • The logic of costly compellence
  • U.S. compellent threats 1945-2007
  • The 1962 Cuban missile crisis
  • The 2011 Libya crisis
  • The 1991 threat against Iraq
  • The 2003 threat against Iraq
  • Conclusion : the implications of costly compellence for theory and policy
  • Appendix. Description of how the dataset was constructed.

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