The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy

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The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy is written by Tim Sweijs and published by Springer Nature. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031213033 (ISBN 10) and 9783031213038 (ISBN 13).

Ultimata feature as a core concept in the coercive diplomacy scholarship. Conventional wisdom holds that pursuing an ultimatum strategy is risky. This book shows that the conventional wisdom is wrong on the basis of a new dataset of 87 ultimata issued from 1920–2020. It provides a historical examination of ultimata in Western strategic, political, and legal thought since antiquity until the present, and offers a four-pronged typology that explains their various purposes and effects: 1) the dictate, 2) the conditional war declaration, 3) the bluff, and 4) the brinkmanship ultimatum. The book yields a better understanding of interstate threat behaviour at a time of surging competition. Background materials can be consulted at www.coercivediplomacy.com.