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It was alleged, too, that coercion was being used to exact repayment, leaving victims with no way out but to end their own lives.
The only way to grapple with these problems is through cooperation with others, and that requires the “soft” power of attraction as well as the hard power of coercion.
Democracy promotion is better accomplished by attraction than coercion, and it takes time and patience.
But his recent attempts to use Russia’s energy resources for political coercion in Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and elsewhere have exposed Russia as an unreliable partner, unnerving even the Chinese, who do not wish to see a reconstituted Russian empire on their border.
Nonetheless, Russia, China, and other well-resourced and ambitious regimes are projecting more influence beyond their borders than at any time in recent memory – and not principally through what Nye calls “hard power”: military might or raw economic coercion.
Soft power is the ability to get what you want through attraction and persuasion rather than threats of coercion or offers of payment.
Despite Beijing’s improved relations with Taipei, Chinese strategists largely maintain that as long as the US remains the predominant power in the Western Pacific, China will not escape the threat of naval coercion.
We might like to think that we’re better than that, or that the world has progressed beyond naked coercion by great powers.
Lenin defined his "dictatorship of the proletariat" as "power that is limited by nothing, by no laws, that is restrained by absolutely no rules, that rests directly on coercion."
Hard power, which relies on coercion, grows out of military and economic might.
Argentina then used a mixture of coercion and negotiation to get out from under the mountain of debt that it incurred in the 1990’s, effectively expropriating foreign creditors, who were viewed as dangerous and malign.
The instruments of coercion that states dispose of short of military intervention are imperfect and, to be remotely efficient, require a degree of international solidarity that is only generated in exceptional circumstances.
The classic mafia technique of physical coercion is thus replaced with a bloodless, “legal” form of compulsion overseen by public authorities.
By providing and enforcing suitable rules of the game, and so deterring private predations conducted through fraud and coercion, the state acts as a facilitator of commerce.
Many countries will be unlikely to support a military solution until they have seen genuine efforts at other means of persuasion (and coercion) fail.
A similar majority of the Thai electorate voted for Thaksin’s parties and their pro-poor populist platforms in January 2001, February 2005, April 2006, and December 2007, defying a military coup, a coup-induced constitution, judicial interventions, and army coercion and repression.
It was an organic component of a major process associated with the unstoppable disintegration of a system based on lies, hatred and coercion; a system that deprived people of their most fundamental rights, contravened the very essence of life and attempted to forcibly halt the progress of history under the banner of an appealing but false utopia.
There is evidence that mobile phones, social media, instant messaging, and other modern forms of communication have given traffickers new tools for recruitment, coercion, and exploitation.
Finally, apps can be undermined by the coercion that often accompanies human trafficking.
If anything, China has proven that a country can blend control, coercion, and patronage to stymie the Internet’s politically liberalizing elements.
The focus of public policy regarding prostitution should be to prevent violence and coercion, as well as to stop the spread of infectious diseases – which is exactly what Amnesty is recommending.
The term “soft power” – the ability to affect others by attraction and persuasion rather than the hard power of coercion and payment – is sometimes used to describe any exercise of power that does not involve the use of force.
Whether commercial collectors will agree to such a plan without legislative coercion remains to be seen.
But Abe and several of his colleagues have gone on the record over the years – including during Abe’s first term as Prime Minister in 2006-2007 – denying that coercion was involved.
What distinguished the Hrtkovci speech, according to the Appeals Chamber, is that ethnic cleansing quickly followed, “in the context of coercion, harassment, and intimidation.”
But the word “forced” suggests a degree of coercion that does not make economic sense.
That is why Japan must not yield to the Chinese government’s daily exercises in coercion around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
The CGD report proposes that a regime should be considered odious if it abuses the human rights of the population, employs military coercion, perpetrates electoral fraud, and mismanages or misappropriates public funds.
In particular, the IOM lacks a mechanism to evaluate whether national governments are using coercion – banned under international law – to repatriate or relocate refugees.
But to follow to this line of thinking, one must ignore a fundamental distinction between two kinds of monopolies: those that emerge from the free operation of the market; and those that are a result of state coercion.
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