Compellence and the Strategic Culture of Imperial Japan: Implications for Coercive Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century

by Forrest E. Morgan

Compellence is a fundamental tool of international security policy. This study explains how culture shapes the ways that decision-makers respond to the threat of force. First, Morgan builds a theoretical framework, next he analyzes three cases in which states attempted to compel Japan to change its behavior. The first is an in-depth analysis of the 1895 triple intervention in which Russia, Germany, and France forced Japanese leaders to return the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275977803
• ISBN13: 9780275977801
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.0"