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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"compellence"”.
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Not in your backyard : transitive compellence, base states, and violent non-state groups
… groups, a strategy which I call "transitive compellence." Empirically, employing transitive compellence has produced a broad range of outcomes. At times, this strategy has achieved its desired objective of inducing a state to contain the violent group, whereas at other junctures, these …
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The US-Japan Alliance and China's Rise: Alliance Strategy and Reassurance, Deterrence, and Compellence
<p>Do changes in US alliance strategy toward Japan affect the US’ ability to succeed in reassuring, deterring, and compelling a rising China? This study contends that when the US pursues a distancing strategy toward from Japan, Japan adopts hedging strategies that may undercut US reassurance, …
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An Analysis of the Efficacy of Post 9/11 Security Policy in Countering Violent Extremism and Reducing Acts of International Terrorism
… drone attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan as a compellence force, and public diplomacy as a feature of negotiation. This paper examines which methods, if any, were successful as counterterrorism measures by whether they could neutralize al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden without contributing to …
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The military lens : doctrinal differences, misperception, and deterrence failure in Sino-American relations
… in strategic coercion--either deterrence or compellence--these problems can lead to escalation and war. To develop this unique explanation for the pernicious problem of false optimism, this dissertation draws on scholarship on the sources of doctrine, strategic culture, misperception, …
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Unintended Survivability: Comparative Reactions to Israel's Nuclear Posture
… of nuclear weapons in terms of deterrence, compellence, and coercion; d) the difference between the official, semi-official and unofficial rhetoric; e) the significance of the legal reaction.
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Red lines and faits accomplis in interstate coercion and crisis
… make gains with credible coercive threats (compellence). In contrast, this dissertation conceives of each crisis as a strategic competition between a challenger seeking to make gains unilaterally by fait accompli and its adversary's countervailing efforts to set red lines to deter these …