Brian Blankenship
@brianblankenship.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami
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🚨 It’s publication day!
THE ART OF COERCION is finally out.
When do threats work? When they are perceived as credibly *conditional*. Credible and painful punishments are not enough.
Threats fail if targets feel “damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”
shorturl.at/qa4T5
THE ART OF COERCION is finally out.
When do threats work? When they are perceived as credibly *conditional*. Credible and painful punishments are not enough.
Threats fail if targets feel “damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”
shorturl.at/qa4T5
The Art of Coercion by Reid B. C. Pauly | Paperback | Cornell University Press
The Art of Coercion presents a fresh explanation for the success—and failure—of coercive demands in international politics.Strong states are surprisingly bad at coercion. History shows they prevail...
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August 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🚨 It’s publication day!
THE ART OF COERCION is finally out.
When do threats work? When they are perceived as credibly *conditional*. Credible and painful punishments are not enough.
Threats fail if targets feel “damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”
shorturl.at/qa4T5
THE ART OF COERCION is finally out.
When do threats work? When they are perceived as credibly *conditional*. Credible and painful punishments are not enough.
Threats fail if targets feel “damned if they do and damned if they don’t.”
shorturl.at/qa4T5
Reposted by Brian Blankenship
"Wheat at War" is now available!
If you are interested in World War I, the origins of global economic governance, or how food shapes warfare, you'll learn something from this book.
E-book is available today, with the physical copies shipping tomorrow!
If you are interested in World War I, the origins of global economic governance, or how food shapes warfare, you'll learn something from this book.
E-book is available today, with the physical copies shipping tomorrow!
Wheat at War: Allied Economic Cooperation in the Great War
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August 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
"Wheat at War" is now available!
If you are interested in World War I, the origins of global economic governance, or how food shapes warfare, you'll learn something from this book.
E-book is available today, with the physical copies shipping tomorrow!
If you are interested in World War I, the origins of global economic governance, or how food shapes warfare, you'll learn something from this book.
E-book is available today, with the physical copies shipping tomorrow!
Very pleased to have this research note in ISQ! It finds that unconditional signals of U.S. abandonment, and to a lesser extent conditional U.S. threats of abandonment and increased alliance burden-sharing, modestly increase support for nuclear weapons. But effect sizes are fairly small overall.
@brianblankenship.bsky.social tests whether U.S. signals of abandonment and efforts to encourage allied burden-sharing using threats of abandonment increase support for nuclear weapons acquisition, using a survey of foreign policy elites from 16 European NATO members.
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Do Alliance Abandonment and Coercion Increase Support for Nuclear Weapons? An Elite Survey in NATO
Abstract. Alliances are central to U.S. nuclear nonproliferation efforts. Many scholars suggest that actions which might undermine allies’ faith in or depe
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May 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Very pleased to have this research note in ISQ! It finds that unconditional signals of U.S. abandonment, and to a lesser extent conditional U.S. threats of abandonment and increased alliance burden-sharing, modestly increase support for nuclear weapons. But effect sizes are fairly small overall.