Coercion

Ralph Pettman ()

Chapter Chapter 2 in On Politicking, 2025, pp 19-32 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The first way in which people practice politicking is coercion. This involves the use of force, or the threat to use force, both physical and psychological. Coercion is favored by those most pessimistic about human nature, that is, by those who see people as being basically bad, and social life as being a dog-eat-dog affair. They also see politicking as being about compulsion or deterrence, in other words, as being highly competitive. The chapter ends by exploring compulsion from the individual level to the global level, and deterrence in terms of the nuclear doctrine of mutually assured destruction.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-5334-8_2

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