WASHINGTON--The U.S. Institute of Peace Press has just published The United States and Coercive Diplomacy, edited by Brandeis University Professor Robert Art and U.S. Agency for International Development Assistant Administrator Patrick Cronin, formerly director of research and studies at the Institute of Peace.

The U.S. government has turned to coercive diplomacy—the threat or limited use of military force to change a state's or group's behavior—eight times since the end of the Cold War. The book examines the successes and failures of this strategy through a series of essays by distinguished scholars whom Art and Cronin enlisted. Included are studies of U.S. actions in Haiti, Somalia, North Korea, Bosnia and Kosovo, Iraq, and elsewhere.

The chapter on "Coercive Diplomacy against Iraq, 1990–98" by Jon Alterman is available to download in PDF format. To view this PDF you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

For more about the book, including how to order, please click here.

Journalists interested in interviewing Art, Cronin, or any of the book's contributing writers, or in receiving review copies, should contact the Office of Public Affairs.