The United States and Coercive Diplomacy

by Art, Robert J.; Cronin, Patrick M.

• ISBN13: 9781929223459
• ISBN10: 1929223455
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: United States Inst of Peace Pr

Summary

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 target 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 that will give scholars food for thought and policymakers reason to pause, 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Alexander L. George
Acknowledgments	xv
Contributors	xvii
1. Introduction	3	(18)
Robert J. Art
2. Humanitarian Relief and Nation Building in Somalia	21	(36)
Nora Bensahel
3. Coercive Diplomacy in the Balkans: The U.S. Use of Force in Bosnia and Kosovo	57	(62)
Steven L. Burg
4. The Delicate Balance between Coercion and Diplomacy: The Case of Haiti, 1994	119	(38)
Robert A. Pastor
5. Nuclear Weapons and North Korea: Who's Coercing Whom?	157	(68)
William M. Drennan
6. The 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Confrontation: Coercion, Credibility, and the Use of Force	225	(50)
Robert S. Ross
7. Coercive Diplomacy against Iraq, 1990-98	275	(30)
Jon B. Alterman
8. Coercive Diplomacy and the Response to Terrorism	305	(54)
Martha Crenshaw
9. Coercive Diplomacy: What Do We Know?'	359	(62)
Robert J. Art
Index	421