Framing Compellent Strategies

摘要: Abstract : The United States occasionally seeks to compel or coerce others, either nations nonstate actors. To do so, it threatens use of force but, ideally, wants prevail without actually using force. analytic language surrounding "compellence" focuses on point outcomes. However, most cases compellence turn out not have outcomes, but instead been campaigns. For example, the was still dealing with Saddam Hussein almost a decade after Desert Storm. In recent experience, task compelling has seemed vary across three broad categories, each celebrated case in point: major regional adversaries (Iraq); would-be nuclear weapons proliferators (India); and circumstances rife ambiguity, involving such considerations as U.S. stakes, who be compelled, how much control targets had over their own forces (Haiti). Efforts Milosevic appeared, terms interests, straddle Iraq Haiti categories; moreover, Kosovo campaign conducted our research proceeded, so added fourth case. Other were examined less detail category.