The Power to Coerce

Two Americans rediscover coercive diplomacy.  Will they go on to consider resurrecting normal, persuasive diplomacy that does not humiliate those to whom it's applied?  The Shadow knows...

The Power to Coerce

The U.S. has real opportunities to use non-military means to enact change.

By David Gompert and Hans Binnendijk

July 9, 2014 | http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2014/07/09/how-the-us-can-use-its-non-military-power

The Obama administration has been pilloried at home and abroad for hesitating to use military force to impose America’s will on its adversaries – for not striking the Syrian regime after it used chemical weapons, for choosing talks instead of force to stop Iran’s nuclear program, and for what critics regard as a meek response to Russia’s seizure of Crimea. However, in at least the Iranian and Russian cases, the United States has used its non-military power to coerce – we call it “P2C” – to good effect. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2014/07/09/how-the-us-can-use-its-non-military-power