Reinterpreting western use of coercion in Bosnia‐Herzegovina

Assurances and carrots were crucial

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11158335
AutoresPeter Viggo Jakobsen (0000-0002-1245-3002, IT University of Copenhagen, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen23
Número2
Páginas1-22
Fecha de publicación2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Strategic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0140-2390 • E-ISSN: 1743-937X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402390008437788
OpenAlexW1987918833
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas19

This article demonstrates that assurances and carrots accompanied credible threats every time Western coercion succeeded in Bosnia. This finding is hardly surprising as it merely confirms earlier research on coercive diplomacy, but it is nevertheless important because the crucial role played by assurances and carrots has been completely ignored in most analyses to date. It also has important policy implications at a time when Western, and particularly American, policy‐makers tend to ignore this fact at their peril. US policy towards Iraq and Western policy towards Yugoslavia have been based almost exclusively on the stick in recent years, and its lack of success is therefore not surprising. If Western policy‐makers had learned the right lessons from Bosnia, they would have known that strategies coupling credible threats with credible assurances and carrots would have been more likely to succeed

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