The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy

by Tim Sweijs

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303121305X
• ISBN13: 9783031213052
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 293 Pages