April 30, 2025

US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order. Talking with author Dr. Rich Outzen

US Coercive Diplomacy and the Global Order. Talking with author Dr. Rich Outzen

Is Coercive Diplomacy as efficacious today as it once was ? Or have targets - like Russia - learned to hedge the risks from US economic, military and diplomatic sanctions.

The United States has often used pressure tactics like sanctions, military threats and diplomatic isolation - Coercive Diplomacy - to achieve foreign policy goals. But from 1990 to 2020 the results of such actions has been mixed. Why ? Is Coercive Diplomacy still a statecraft tool for the US to use so frequently ?