POL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Geoffrey Blainey, Dornier Do X, Security Studies
23 Nov 2017
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Deterrence: try to dissuade opponent from aggression by telling them: don"t do x, because if you do, something unacceptably horrible will happen to you. Compellence: do x, because if you don"t . Deterrence and compellence: threat-based strategies to get what you want by manipulating risks of war. Goal: convince opponent you"ll use force unless it accedes to your demands. Deterrence is an example of a threes-based strategy. As a way of trying to manipulate your adversary, it relies on issuing a threat. Typically deterrent threats are thought to be more e ective if they are more speci c: kind of deterrence trump is doing is very open-ended and vague. It tries to force someone to do something by issuing a threat. Compellence is often used in security studies is to describe a threat issued after something has been done and you want them to undo what they just did.
