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| GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY Definition: A way of making another country accept your demands by using the threat of force. ______________________________________________________________________ * All nine elements would be in. 1. Purposeful and necessary - for practitioner! 2. Threat is specific and identifiable (connect to #6 & #8). 3. Threat is issued timely, to help achieve goal(s). 4. Threat is realistic (to emphasize). 5. Threat is issued in a very serious manner. 6. Danger or loss, if threat is carried out, will be enormous. 7. A 'readiness', 'preparedness' or 'willingness' to carry out threat is palpable - for the cowed country. 8. Threat is believed by the harassed country. That is, weaker nation does what bully wants. In other words, the act achieves objective(s). 9. A refusal, by weak country, to succumb will NOT lead to the use of force, as no 'gun' or weapon or will be deployed in the process. ______________________________________ See perfect GRANDSTANDING. Quote: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate". - John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Quote: "The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten". - Mark Twain. Quote: "When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. War settles nothing". - Dwight D. Eisenhower. | |
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