POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Incrementalism, 1986 United States Bombing Of Libya, Cuban Missile Crisis
13 Jul 2014
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Political vs military uses: strategy & force: coercive diplomacy, more prevalent today because there"s a variety of ways to do so, power to hurt is the power to bargain. If you cannot cause pain to your bargaining partner, chances are you wont get much compromising power with them: made possible due to revolution of air and nuclear warfare. Now can threaten to do harm without leaving your country. War is uncertain but causing harm is not. The ability to threaten without conquest: product of the space age allowing countries to bargain to engage in coercive threats without having to defeat the other side (planes, missiles, war is politics by other means. When we use violence it does not mean we stop engaging in competition or bargaining. Using something other than speech, votes, etc i. e. ussr and stalin complaints when allies going into europe so see how the war was fought to shape how the continent would look in the end.
