Strategic Coercion: Concepts and Cases

Edited by Sir Lawrence Freedman

a series of good essays on coercion.  Includes history and early 21st Century examples from the real world.  Excellent background source for writing about coercion.

Coercion breaks down into two main elements:
1) Compellence -- demand of an action -- initiation of an action which ceases immediately when the opponent responds.

2) Deterrence -- demand of inaction -- what must not happen and the consequences; then waiting indefinitely.

Coercion then exists on a continuum from consent to control.

Good, theoretical work.