Western Use of Coercive Diplomacy After the Cold War: A Challenge for Theory and Practice

This book fills a gap in the literature on coercion and assesses the usefulness of coercive diplomacy in the post-Cold war era. The theoretical framework explains why coercive diplomacy politics succeed or fail, identifies the conditions under which Western states will be willing to back coercive strategies with use of limited force and highlights how the need for collective action affects the use of coercion. The framework is tested empirically in analyses of the Gulf crisis, the Yugoslav wars and the Haiti crisis.

Author: P. Jakobsen
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/07/1998
Pages: 215
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780333731734

About the Author
PETER VIGGO JAKOBSEN is Fulbright Scholar and a special student at Department of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was Visiting Scholar at King's College, Department of War Studies, London during the Spring of 1996. He gained his PhD from Department of Political Science at University of Aarhus, in 1997. Presently, he is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. His current main interest is collective use of coercion and military force in the contemporary world.

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