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It's because some family planning programs resorted to unfortunate incentives and coercive policies.
The most startling thing about this is that these coercive policies weren't even needed.
This is an example of coercive logic, invented by the great logician and puzzle creator Raymond Smullyan.
Such organizations often take advantage of states that lack the legitimacy or capacity to administer their own territory effectively, launching a mix of political and armed operations that, over time, give them coercive control over local populations.
While penalties and other coercive measures may be able to keep wavering member states in for a while, this approach would leave the EU susceptible to instability and its members vulnerable to exploitation.
And, since governments typically try to enforce the conventional wisdom, the consequences could be disastrous, because they are magnified by the state’s coordinating – and coercive – power.
While the US remains an indispensable global actor, it is no longer willing to use coercive diplomacy in its quest to build a new order.
That does not, however, mean that China’s coercive actions – which not only undermine Vietnam’s own security, but also threaten the regional status quo – are not being met with resistance.
However, in cases where buyers and sellers are not equally dependent upon the relationship, the greater vulnerability of the more dependent party can be used as a source of coercive power by the less dependent party.
Our century was one of fanatical dogmatism dominated by the desire to create a coercive utopia in the social dimension of human life.
And they use coercive measures that generate resistance.
It is crucial in this context that RtoP advocates continue to emphasize that coercive military force can be contemplated only in the most extreme and exceptional circumstances.
Indeed, particularly where Tibet is concerned, the increasingly sophisticated and pragmatic Chinese leadership seems more like a throwback to the Mao era, with its haranguing propaganda and coercive policies.
In such economies, contracts tend to be honored voluntarily, not through coercive enforcement.
As Russia suggests, without popular support, wealth is protected only by increasingly coercive measures.
Sequential, coercive restructurings of debt will come first, and then exits from the monetary union that will eventually lead to the eurozone’s disintegration.
NGO's do not have coercive "hard" power, but they often enjoy considerable "soft" power - the ability to get the outcomes they want through attraction rather than compulsion.
This dead-end strategy will feature vain attempts to game Germany and desperate economic expedients, such as the essentially coercive capture of domestic savings to finance government debt.
Some of the response has been coldly coercive.
Coercive military action was allowed to take two forms: “all necessary measures” to enforce a no-fly zone, and “all necessary measures… to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack.”
Yet, instead of supporting farmers, African governments have erected even more obstacles to growth, including excessive taxation, insufficient investment, and coercive policies.
While enforcement in the coercive sense remains the domain of states, coercive enforcement is rare even when it comes to inter-governmental agreements.
Granted, socialist era measures had flaws: they were often coercive; elements of "positive" discrimination built into them may have harmed women; the quality and the hidden ideological agenda of child care institutions were dubious.
It also highlights how China is fashioning unconventional tools of coercive diplomacy, whose instruments already range from informally boycotting goods from a targeted country to halting strategic exports (such as of rare-earth minerals) and suspending Chinese tourist travel.
He has both money – the government’s budget and the oligarchs’ fortunes – and the coercive power of the state firmly in his hand.
The hardest cases, always generating the strongest emotions, involve the coercive use of military force.
But it has little coercive power, because anyone is free to try an alternative.
Despite these positive steps, however, the US has not fully escaped the legacy of Cold War coercive democracy.
Making “integration courses” and language instruction compulsory, prohibiting headscarves in schools, as in France, or restricting the rights of immigrants to marry foreigners, as in Denmark, are just some instances of coercive measures adopted in the name of supposedly universal liberal values.
However, if the policy slips into more coercive measures such as carbon tariffs and the like, the result is likely to convert climate change into an energy security struggle.
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