WHEN DOES THREAT WORK IN RELATIONS BETWEEN NATIONS? Available to Purchase

This article attempts to summarise and integrate what we know about the effects of threat. The factors on which the success of threat depends are examined together with situations involving threat which might provoke an adversary to a coercive response. Ways of minimising the provocative effects of threat are discussed and the author suggests that to avoid unwanted consequences threats need to be made in a way that signals that they do not reflect hostile intent or unlimited demands.