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Even in the former Soviet Union, almost all countries are seeking trade and security with anyone but Russia, because Putin is using all sticks and no carrots.
The West accepted this decision and promised those who behaved many carrots.
But "stick and carrot" diplomacy depends both on the use of the stick and on the availability of carrots.
Now, the stick has become spongy and the carrots old or rotten.
First, blackmail can be renewed if the West produces fresh carrots.
Until recently, this combination of carrots and sticks functioned effectively.
Hard power works through payments and coercion (carrots and sticks); soft power works through attraction and co-option.
If effective carrots and sticks are put on the table and war is averted, the international community and Sudan would save more than $100 billion, according to a recent Aegis Trust report.
These are exactly the wrong sticks and carrots.
So long as the USSR did not stage a military attack, containment’s reliance on economic sticks and carrots, competition within the world communist movement, intelligence and diplomacy, and promoting the vitality of the capitalist democracies would guarantee security.
Beyond all of these carrots, however, societies should consider using some sticks.
In 2006, South Korea launched a yearlong, amply-financed outreach campaign that targeted all 15 Security Council members with official visits in their capitals, and that often dangled significant bilateral carrots – gestures that other candidates had neither the time nor the resources to offer.
What is needed instead are carrots.
Second, industrial policy needs to rely on both carrots and sticks.
With the two-pronged goal of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and avoiding another war, they devised various carrots and sticks to shape Iranian and US actions.
As the US embarks on corporate tax reform, policymakers should bear in mind that other countries are using carrots, not sticks, to compete for the activities and income of global companies.
Russia is also using less coercion and more carrots, offering economic assistance, security guarantees and an ideology of “sovereign democracy” that appeals to many post-soviet elites.
But, of course, just the opposite is true: the victory of conservative Republicans in Congress has left Obama with even less room to offer carrots to the North.
Their idea is that the eurozone could not afford a neo-fascist government in a member country, and that preventing such an outcome requires both carrots (transfer mechanisms) and sticks (supranational powers).
Clearly, the SGP approach – with many carrots, but no sticks – does not work.
When you persuade others to want what you want, you do not have to spend as much on sticks and carrots to move them in your direction.
The best path forward for the US is to offer more carrots for Ukraine, rather than more sticks for Russia.
It means that others want what you want, and there is less need to use carrots and sticks to make others do what you want.
Governments often use both carrots and sticks to keep journalists in line.
They ought to be persuaded - through a judicious mixture of carrots and sticks - that strengthening the rule of law and democratic institutions would work to their advantage.
Saudi Arabia used a package of carrots and sticks, including offering to replace Iran as Syria’s chief supplier of oil.
Desirable government policy consists of a carrots and stick: encouraging investment and entrepreneurship in the modern sector ex ante, but, equally important, rationalizing production and driving out poor performers ex post.
But its share is declining, while China, using both carrots (like tax holidays and special enterprise zones) and sticks (like explicit and implicit local-content requirements) to attract foreign companies, has become the second-largest destination.
Consider “golden rice,” a GM hybrid that carries the gene from carrots that makes vitamin A. A recent study found that, in India alone, had golden rice been approved when it was technically ready in 2002, it could have saved 1.4 million disability-adjusted life years for those who instead suffered blindness or death from vitamin A deficiency.
What is needed is a more precise mix of carrots and sticks.
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