International Politics

Front 1

Brute Force;

Back 1

The ability to take anything you want by shear force

- More direct than Hurting or threatening

Front 2

Coercion;

Back 2

Goal is to change the enemies incentives and or goals.

- Still by threatening or force

- Room for bargaining

Front 3

Successful Coercion;

Back 3

Credibility; Cost effectiveness

Front 4

What are the two types of coercion;

Back 4

Military and Economic.

Front 5

Compellence;

Back 5

Alter the status quo by changing the behavior through threat or use of force.

- 1 stop what the enemy is doing2 alter the enemy’s ongoing policies3 reverse what the enemy has done to the previous statusquo

Front 6

Detterence;

Back 6

Try and persuade the enemy not to take actions through threat or force.

Front 7

Who should be protected from deterrence;

Back 7

Extended Deterrence; Used to protect another or joining state from third party control.

Direct Deterrence; Used to protect itself

Front 8

Threat;

Back 8

Responsive tactic where the opponents non cooperation is punished; Compellent and detterent threats

Front 9

Promise;

Back 9

Where an opponents cooperation is rewarded.

Front 10

Sun Tzu;

Back 10

Carries his men deep before looking behind him, essentially knocking down the ladder behind him

Front 11

Empirical patterns of democracy;

Back 11

They rarely go to war with each other.

Front 12

Dyadic vs, Monadic;

Back 12

Dyadic; Democracies rarely fight each other.

Monadic; Democracies are involved in wars less frequently than non democracies.