Coercion Strategies §
Designing Coercive Strategy §
- Is the target a rational actor?
- Is it rational or irrational actors?
- What is the reputation of the coercer (credibility)?
- Does the coercer only threaten but never follow up with consequences?
- 3 Types of costs and counter-coercion
- Resistance cost: the cost of resisting the coercive strategy
- Compliance cost: the cost of submitting to the coercive strategy and cede to the coercer’s demand. How much you want the target to give up in complying.
- Coercer want it to be low
- Enforcement cost: the cost that the coercer has to bear in executing the threat
- Coercer want it to be low
