Coercion, survival, and war : why weak states resist the United States /
In asymmetric interstate conflicts, great powers have the capability to coerce weak states by threatening their survival-but not vice versa. It is therefore the great power that decides whether to escalate a conflict into a crisis by adopting a coercive strategy. In practice, however, the coercive s...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2015]
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Series: | Stanford security studies.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |