The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy (Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict)

Sweijs, Tim

ISBN 10: 3031213025 / ISBN 13: 9783031213021

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy (Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict)
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031213025
• ISBN 13: 9783031213021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Tim Sweijs is the Director of Research at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and a Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands’ War Studies Research Centre. He advises governments and international organisations and has published on international security, contemporary war, coercion, foresight, and defence planning.