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Putin has tried coercion – and been met with increasingly tough sanctions.
Democracy promotion is better accomplished by soft attraction than hard coercion, and it takes time and patience.
The appearance of virtue is an important source of a leader’s soft power or the ability to get what one wants by attraction rather than coercion or payment.
Machiavelli also stressed the importance of the hard power of coercion and payment when a leader faces a tradeoff with the soft power of attraction, “since being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself.”
Belief formed under pressure or coercion is not true belief.
They also have effective levers of coercion that serve as backstops for relative stability.
Such divided societies require a rising level of coercion and force to control.
Those who make such claims are bound to be wrong at times, and so can enforce their claims only by coercion and repression.
Hard power works through payments and coercion (carrots and sticks); soft power works through attraction and co-option.
It would be self-defeating, or worse, to try to promote morality through brutal coercion.
If they manifestly fail to do so, the international community has the responsibility to act – by persuasion, if possible, and by coercion, if necessary.
When, despite unbearable pain, you are interrogated – including in your cell – for dozens of hours without a break, and an authoritarian regime’s entire system of coercion, including its media, is trying to discredit and destroy you once and for all, prayer becomes the only intimate, trusting, and reassuring conversation that one can have.
All of this was part of their control of land and labor, based on centrally planned allocation of resources and coercion.
By contrast, India’s current anti-corruption protests may be missing the point, for the central challenge in fighting corruption is to establish a freedom born of righteous conduct, not to authorize a new source of state coercion.
The sources of instability include not only the threat of weapons of mass destruction, but also – and more immediately – efforts to alter the territorial status quo through force or coercion.
Second, states should not use force or coercion in trying to realize their claims.
In today’s world, countries should not fear that coercion and threats will replace rules and laws.
The problem arises when these relationships turn sour or, worse, when they are non-consensual or based on coercion, such as when a more senior colleague pursues a sexual relationship with a subordinate.
For Europeans, a collective and constructive approach to defense spending will always be more compelling than any coercion our allies may consider.
The tools and methods of the discipline are not adequate to deal systematically with coercion as a way of acquiring and maximizing wealth.
Some are impaired in their ability to give informed consent due to mental or cognitive disabilities, or are exposed to coercion, improper monitoring, and pervasive conflicts of interest.
In particular, all countries should agree to state or clarify their territorial or maritime claims on the basis of international law, and to settle any dispute by peaceful means – never through force or coercion.
Yet there are political “hitchhikers” who want to exploit the recent awakening, not by promoting an agenda of freedom, but by imposing a different type of coercion.
And we know – or should know – that women in sweatshops around the world report being locked in and forbidden to use bathrooms for long periods, as well as sexual harassment, violent union-busting, and other forms of coercion.
But the allegations against Assange – the rape, sexual molestation, and unlawful coercion of two women – seem to have been forgotten by most people, including Ecuador’s government.
But coercion, though certainly a factor in the scenes from Pyongyang, is perhaps not the only explanation.
If Putin unleashes his well-developed apparatus of coercion, he will have played his last remaining card.
If they back Tung unconditionally for the rest of his term, they can look forward to the collapse of their long-term strategy to re-absorb Taiwan, for the alternative to peaceful reunification with Taiwan is coercion.
But any resort to coercion increases the likelihood of military confrontation with the US, Taiwan's protector.
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.
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