Coercing Compliance: State-Initiated Brute Force in Today's World

by Robert Mandel

Book Overview

Few global security issues stimulate more fervent passion than the application of brute force. Despite the fierce debate raging about it in government, society and the Academy, inadequate strategic understanding surrounds the issue, prompting the urgent need for -the first comprehensive systematic global analysis of 21st century state-initiated internal and external applications of brute force.

Based on extensive case evidence, Robert Mandel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804793980
• ISBN13: 9780804793988
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"