Coercive Cooperation: Explaining Multilateral Economic Sanctions

by Lisa L. Martin

Book Overview

This innovative study shows that multilateral sanctions are coercive in their pressure on their target and in their origin: the sanctions themselves frequently result from coercive policies, with one state attempting to coerce others through persuasion, threats, and promises. To analyze this process, Lisa Martin uses a novel methodology combining game-theoretic models, statistical analysis, and case studies. She emphasizes that credible commitments...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691034761
• ISBN13: 9780691034768
• Release Date: December 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"