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Title
The use and utility of ultimata in coercive diplomacy / Tim Sweijs.
ISBN
9783031213038 (electronic bk.)
3031213033 (electronic bk.)
9783031213021
3031213025
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 293 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-21303-8 doi
Call Number
JZ1305
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.1/1
Summary
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. .
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Includes index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 18, 2023).
Series
Twenty-first century perspectives on war, peace, and human conflict, 2945-6061
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783031213021
Chapter 1: The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy
Chapter 2: A Genealogy of Ultimata
Chapter 3: Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy
Chapter 4: The Dataset: Data Collection and Coding Procedures
Chapter 5: Ultimata 1920-2020: A Chronological Survey
Chapter 6: Ultimata 1920-2020: Patterns and Findings
Chapter 7: A Typology of Ultimata
Chapter 8: The Dictate
Chapter 9: The Conditional War Declaration
Chapter 10: The Bluff
Chapter 11: The Brinkmanship Ultimatum
Chapter 12: Findings and Conclusions.
