@article{1468002,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Sweijs, Tim,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1468002},
      title = {The use and utility of ultimata in coercive diplomacy /},
      abstract = {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. Tim Sweijs is the Director of  Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a  Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands' War Studies  Research Centre. He advises governments and international  organisations and has published on international security,  contemporary war, coercion, foresight, and defence  planning. .},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21303-8},
      recid = {1468002},
      pages = {1 online resource (xv, 293 pages) :},
}