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The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy

The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy - Twenty-First Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict

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Publisher's Synopsis

Ultimata feature as a core concept in the coercive diplomacy scholarship. Conventional wisdom holds that pursuing an ultimatum strategy is risky. This book shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong on the basis of a new dataset of 87 ultimata issued from 1920-2020. It provides a historical examination of ultimata in Western strategic, political, and legal thought since antiquity until the present, and offers a four-pronged typology that explains their various purposes and effects: 1) the dictate, 2) the conditional war declaration, 3) the bluff, and 4) the brinkmanship ultimatum. The book yields a better understanding of interstate threat behaviour at a time of surging competition. Background materials can be consulted at www.coercivediplomacy.com.


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Book information

ISBN: 9783031213052
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 341.58
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 293
Weight: -1g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm