The United States and coercive diplomacy / edited by Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin.

Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2003.

xvii, 442 pages ; 24 cm

Second printing 2004.

"With increasing frequency, U.S. leaders look to achieve their foreign policy goals by marrying diplomacy to military muscle. Since the end of the Cold War, "coercive diplomacy"--The effort to change the behavior of a larger state or group through the threat or limited use of military force - has been used in no fewer than eight cases." "But what, exactly, has the concept of coercive diplomacy meant in recent practice? What are coercive diplomacy's objectives? How does it operate? And how well does it work?" "To answer these questions, Robert Art and Patrick Cronin have enlisted a distinguished cast of scholars and practitioners to investigate the record of the past twelve years. Each author focuses on one of coercive diplomacy's recent targets, a remarkably diverse group ranging from North Korea to Serbia to the Taliban, from warlords to terrorists to regional superpowers." "As Robert Art makes clear in a groundbreaking conclusion, those results have been mixed at best. Art dissects the uneven performance of coercive diplomacy and explains why it has sometimes worked and why it has more often failed."--Jacket.

English

July 23, 2003

Includes bibliographical references and index.