1.      Coercive, Gunboat and Preventive Diplomacy

Coercive Diplomacy of the use of a threat of potential use of force or limited use of force to enforce coercer’s interests against the adversary. This strategy is a political-diplomatic approach to dispute resolution, not a conventional military tactic.

1.1.    The Class will cover issues such as

o   Theory of coercive diplomacy

o   Hard power and diplomacy

o   Soft and Hard Power

o   The Case of North Korea

o   Uses of gunboat diplomacy by USA, China and other actors

o   Intervention and Conflict management

1.2.   Required Reading

o     Crystal, Sayde-Hope. „Coercive Diplomacy: A Theoretical and Practical Evaluation". Glendon Journal of International Studies 8, n. 1 (2015).

1.3.   Suggested Reading

o     Mulvenon, James. „The limits of coercive diplomacy: The 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war". Journal of Northeast Asian Studies 14, č. 3 (Fall 1995): 68.