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THIS CHAPTER ON COERCIVE DIPLOMACY defines this strategy as a combination of credible military power and diplomatic commitments in the process of coercion. While political hawks would use credible threats in order to compel actors to comply, doves would persuade them to comply via reassurance. A balanced policy would use threats when appropriate and reassurance when necessary.
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Alexander George, Forceful Persuasion: Coercive Diplomacy as an Alternative to War (Washington, D.C.: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1991), 4–7.
Elliot Aronson, Timothy Wilson, and Robin Akert, Social Psychology: The Heart and the Mind (New York: Harper Collins, 1994).
Graham Allison, Albert Carnesale, and Joseph Nye, Hawks, Doves, and Owls (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985), 206–22. In addition to these three, others scholars have used the hawk–dove framework. See also Fred Ikle, Every War Must End (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), 60–61, for his analysis of hawks and doves. Ikle defines hawks as those who engage in treasonous adventurism instead of terminating the fighting: in search of peace with honor, they fight too much and for too long. Doves are those who give aid and comfort to the enemy by retreating in the face of aggression: in a quest for peace at any cost, they would fight too little and for too short a time.
Richard Holbrooke, To End a War (New York: Random House, 1998), 357.
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Tanter, R., Psarouthakis, J. (1999). Coercive Diplomacy. In: Balancing in the Balkans. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312292829_4
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