The Use and Utility of Ultimata in Coercive Diplomacy

2023 ed.

by Tim Sweijs

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Book Series Twenty-first Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict

ISBN-10 3031213025

ISBN-13 9783031213021

Edition 2023 ed.

Publisher Springer International Publishing AG

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 13th, 2023

Print length 293 Pages

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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 their various purposes and effects: 1) the dictate, 2) the conditional war declaration, 3) the bluff, and 4) the brinkmanship ultimatum.

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 their various purposes and effects: 1) the dictate, 2) the conditional war declaration, 3) the bluff, and 4) the brinkmanship ultimatum. The book yields a better understanding of interstate threat behaviour at a time of surging competition. Background materials can be consulted at www.coercivediplomacy.com.

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