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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.
Some, including political scientists Deiniol Jones [15] and Andrew Rigby, [16] consider throffer to be synonymous with carrot and stick, an idiom which refers to the way a donkey is offered a carrot to encourage compliance, while noncompliance is punished with a stick. [17] Other writers, while electing to use the word, consider it a poor one.
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]
As North Carolina grapples with a growing affordable housing shortfall, a federal lawmaker is hoping new “carrot” incentives could entice developers to preserve the state’s current stock for ...
In his final months in office, President Joe Biden is signaling new willingness to use U.S. military assistance to Israel as both a carrot and a stick to influence its high-stakes confrontation ...
The united front in Taiwan is an aspect of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Government of China's larger united front strategy, applied to Taiwan, to achieve unification. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It relies on the presence of pro-Beijing sympathizers in Taiwan combined with a carrot-and-stick approach of threatening war with Taiwan while offering ...
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).
A North Carolina congressman has proposed legislation that would provide incentives for developers of low-income housing. But is it enough?