Publisher Description
From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw (whether implicitly or explicitly) upon assumptions and precepts formulated in—and predicated upon—politics in a state-centric, bipolar world.
Coercion moves beyond these somewhat hidebound premises and examines the critical issue of coercion in the twenty-first century, with a particular focus on new actors, strategies and objectives in this very old bargaining game. The chapters in this volume examine intra-state, inter-state, and transnational coercion and deterrence as well as both military and non-military instruments of persuasion, thus expanding our understanding of coercion for conflict in the twenty-first century.
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“Coercion is central to international politics, and this collection does an excellent job of mapping the terrain both conceptually and empirically.”
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Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University
About the Authors
Kelly M. Greenhill is Associate Professor and Director of International Relations at Tufts University and Research Fellow at Harvard University. She is author of Weapons of Mass Migration, Coercion, Foreign Policy, and numerous other books, articles, and opinion pieces on international security and foreign policy.
Peter Krause is an assistant professor of political science at Boston College and a Research Affiliate with the MIT Security Studies Program. He is the author of Rebel Power, Fight and Win, and has published articles on the threat of terrorism, modern territorial conquest, the effectiveness of political violence, US intervention in the Syrian civil war, and the war of ideas in the Middle East.
About Emily Durante
Emily Durante has been narrating audiobooks for over ten years and is also an AudioFile Earphones Award–winning audiobook director. She has been acting since the age of seven and has performed in a number of stage productions at the professional, collegiate, and regional levels.