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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]
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.
Forced marriage is a marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without their consent or against their will. A marriage can also become a forced marriage even if both parties enter with full consent if one or both are later forced to stay in the marriage against their will.
There are several ways one can achieve this: one can coerce others with threats; one can induce them with payments; or one can attract and co-opt them to want what one wants. This soft power – getting others to want the outcomes one wants – co-opts people rather than coerces them.
This is who is affected by abortion legislation.
No one's sure exactly why this woman had a story to tell, because this woman lived as many as 6,000 years ago. We can still imagine her intoning scary scenes with foreign howls. A charming man's buttery voice might've won over a reluctant, longhaired princess; a beguiling forest creature's dry cackle a smoke signal for danger.
“The New York Times story made it less likely than ever that legitimate, knowledgeable, passionate physicians get involved with treating addiction with buprenorphine or anything. And that is a tragedy of the story,” Newman said. Overdosing on bupe is “almost impossible,” according to Dr. Seppala of Hazelden.
Many recounted that at least a portion of enslavers continuously interfered in the sexual lives of the enslaved people, usually the women. The slave narratives also testified that enslaved women were subjected to rape; arranged marriages; forced intercourse and sexual violation by enslavers, their sons or overseers; and other forms of abuse.