The Power to Coerce Countering Adversaries Without Going to War

• Main Author: Gompert, David C. (auth)
• Other Authors: Binnendijk, Hans (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2016
• Subjects: Network security; International relations; Diplomacy; Political Science; Technology; History
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Mounting costs, risks, and public misgivings of waging war are raising the importance of U.S. power to coerce (P2C). The best P2C options are financial sanctions, support for nonviolent political opposition to hostile regimes, and offensive cyber operations. The state against which coercion is most...