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  2. Coercion (international relations) - Wikipedia

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    In international relations, coercion refers to the imposition of costs by a state on other states and non-state actors to prevent them from taking an action or to compel them to take an action (compellence). [1] [2] [3] Coercion frequently takes the form of threats or the use of limited military force. [4]

  3. Hard power - Wikipedia

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    USS Nimitz at sea. In politics, hard power is the use of military and economic means to influence the behavior or interests of other political bodies. This form of political power is often aggressive (), and is most immediately effective when imposed by one political body upon another of less military and/or economic power. [1]

  4. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

  5. Compellence - Wikipedia

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    Compellence is a form of coercion that attempts to get an actor (such as a state) to change its behavior through threats to use force or the actual use of limited force. [1] [2] [3] Compellence can be more clearly described as "a political-diplomatic strategy that aims to influence an adversary's will or incentive structure.

  6. Deterrence theory - Wikipedia

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    A successful deterrence policy must be considered in military terms but also political terms: International relations, foreign policy and diplomacy. In military terms, deterrence success refers to preventing state leaders from issuing military threats and actions that escalate peacetime diplomatic and military co-operation into a crisis or ...

  7. Supreme Court leans against limiting Biden administration ...

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    The Supreme Court will weigh the circumstances under which the government can be found to cross the line from persuasion to coercion in cases involving two contentious issues: problematic social ...

  8. Legitimacy (political) - Wikipedia

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    Legitimacy is "a value whereby something or someone is recognized and accepted as right and proper". [6] In political science, legitimacy has traditionally been understood as the popular acceptance and recognition by the public of the authority of a governing régime, whereby authority has political power through consent and mutual understandings, not coercion.

  9. Opinion - Is that slavery on your pasta? Uyghur forced labor ...

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    China’s official 2019 yearbook on Rural Poverty and Regional Economic Development states that land transfer reform must “combine coercion and inducement.” Government documents reveal that ...