Reinterpreting western use of coercion in Bosnia‐Herzegovina

Assurances and carrots were crucial

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11158335
AutoresPeter Viggo Jakobsen (0000-0002-1245-3002, IT University of Copenhagen, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume23
Fascículo2
Páginas1-22
Data de publicação2000-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Strategic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0140-2390 • E-ISSN: 1743-937X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402390008437788
OpenAlexW1987918833
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências 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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