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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.
Nearly every government department had different procedures. Audits became overly complicated. ... Perhaps most importantly, the Keep Commission utilized a carrot-and-stick approach to personnel ...
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]
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.
"It's a carrot and stick approach," the official said, pointing to Beijing's annual charm offensive programmes towards Taiwan, including a visit to Taipei by one of Shanghai's deputy mayors next week.
Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that the administration's carrot-and-stick approach "implies at a time when you might not think the ...
A North Carolina congressman has proposed legislation that would provide incentives for developers of low-income housing. But is it enough?
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 ...