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British Foreign Minister Lord Edward Halifax, left, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, back to camera, shaking hands with French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier.

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Journal Article - Cooperation and Conflict

Re-conceptualizing Triangular Coercion in International Relations

| 2022

By forcing an otherwise uninvolved intermediary to align with the coercer, a coercer can alter the balance of vulnerability vis-à-vis its otherwise resilient target and enhance its susceptibility to coercion, albeit by extension. Existing scholarship tackles triangular coercion from different angles and mostly focuses on actor typology. This article seeks to promote scholars' and policymakers' understanding of this strategy by proposing a conceptual model that distills its logic into the abstract components of vulnerability, resilience, and leverage.