… in fact, the issue is whether any Indian state can survive at all."' More than thirty years have
… by which the Indian state has expanded its capacity to use coercive power. The State and …

… level nothing but an attempt by the Western powers to impose their will on the Eastern bloc
… of the use of coercive force in the international context and analyses its usage in South Asia …

… In studying the state’s use of its coercive powers, the chapters which follow trace the
entire process of the state’s response to an event, from policy formation (where there …

… This article examines the use of strategic coercion by a non‐Western, regional power: India.
This ambition is lent focus by a detailed study of India’s use of coercion during the crisis with …

… and non-coercive solution to the problem of reducing India's population growth. The most
attractive feature of incentives was that they appeared to work regardless of what or how much …

… the concept of coercive diplomacy. It is followed by an appraisal of Indian and Pakistani …
to the Indian decision to practice coercive diplomacy in the wake pf the terrorist attack on the …

… The weakness of associational life undermines the development of countervailing power in
society that can force the state to be accountable to popular preferences. It also contracts the …

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… use a post-9/11 crisis in South Asia between India and Pakistan to examine the empirical
veracity of the theory of “coercive … , the conceptual framework of coercive diplomacy (which …

… For the statesmen of contemporary India the continuation of … In solving this problem, Indian
statesmen are severely limited … and constrains India's leaders is, how can Indian democracy …