Coercing compliance : state-initiated brute force in today's world / Robert Mandel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandel, Robert, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military policy.

War.

National security.

Internal security.

Security, International.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

xi, 303 pages ; 22 cmcm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford Security Studies, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Few Global Security Issues Stimulate More Passion than the application of brute force-yet inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for this book. Based on extensive case evidence, Robert Mandel assesses the short-term and long-term, the local and global, the military, political, economic, and social, and the state and human security impacts of brute force He isolates the conditions under which brute force works best and worst, and provides policy advice For managing brute force use in the modern world based on two major overarching conclusions. First, that the modern application of brute force shows a pattern of futility-but one that is more a function of states' misapplication of brute force than of the inherent deficiencies of this instrument itself. Second, that the realm for successful application of state-initiated brute force is shrinking -for while state-initiated brute force can serve as a transitional short-run local military solution, it cannot by itself provide a long-run global strategic solution or serve as a cure for human security problems. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : the study's central thrust

Modern coercion conundrum

Cases of state external brute force use

Cases of state internal brute force use

Brute force security impact patterns

Conclusion : promising security paths.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804793841

0804793840

9780804793988

0804793980

OCLC:

888985986