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Summary Coercive States
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- Politics
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- Queens University Belfast (QUB)
Summary of 2 pages for the course Politics at QUB (Coercive States)
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Evaluate the view that coercive state can be stable + durable.Para Key Points Key Points
Intro Coercion - threat or use force - someone disinclined obey Benefits coercion – limited as reinforces existing
law own free will comply out of fear of consequences. divisions. ST – coercion provide solutions/create
Forced/prevented exercising free will. Variant of power - stability but latent opposition remains.
alternative means achieving obedience. Some regimes – rely heavily on coercion – LT
Contrast authority - seeks influence person rationally political stability sense – not faced threat
chose obey law recognise it to be right/just. internal overthrow by revolution/rebellion e.g.
Coercion – visible form of power, some claim least N.Korea 1948.
effective in longer term. Communist regime overthrown – minimal threat
Refers use or threat physical violence – imprisonment, + 200,000 prisoners interned.
financial penalties e.g. legal fines + psychological Regime change outside states own borders =
coercion e.g. intimidation, sexual + racial harassment. stability + durability undermined state lacks
Coercion – widespread micro + macro political systems effective coercive measures to resist.
e.g. families, classrooms, business + political regime. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq – USAD failed establish
stability post-Hussein Iraq.
Wave pro-democracy across N.Africa + Arabian
states serve back theory usually LT – coercion
ultimately = instability.
1 All political systems – methods coercion or lack means Enforce long periods stability but LT - insecure
enforce laws upon those inclined break them. basis stable state especially, coercion = used
Lack of effective methods encourage power challenge or arbitrarily + without restraint.
authority state + result lawlessness or anarchy. Demonstrated circumstances Mubarak's
Coercion related other variants political power – stability, departure 2011 - killing 300 protestors not deter
authority + legitimacy. people to call for democracy.
Stability – state lacks effective coercive methods – Due to resentment, frustration + anger
vulnerable paramilitary + criminal forces or other states. engendered 3 decades suffering.
475 Taliban prisoners successful escape bid from Coercion sufficiently pervasive + repressive
Kandahar’s Sarposa jail Afghanistan by corrupt guards durability ensure status quo.
April 2011. March 2011 - 10,000 Saudi troops mobilized
2008 - 900 prisoners escaped same jail. quell contagion uprising across N.Africa +
Ineffective coercion undermines stability. Arabian states.
Lawlessness - negative impact economic stability. Headed King Abdullah House of Saud, ruling by
Egypt - Mubarak 30yr period stability compared to royal family traced back Muhammad Bin Saud
African neighbours. no UN backed regime change regardless of
Had to establish status quo with extensive + extreme coercive measure used.
coercion. Includes public beheadings - homosexuals.
2 Relationship - coercion + authority = inversely White Afrikaans during Apartheid era S.Africa -
proportional - more authority, less coercion needed + 90% black pop. refused recognise authority 10%
vice versa. white population.
Authority - traditional, legal-rational or charismatic - less Human Rights Watch - 800 people killed Libya +
coercion to maintain compliance. civil war.
Converse true - lacking authority rely upon coercion. Micro politics - teacher admiration + respect
pupils - exercises authority - coercion rare
occasions.
3 Coercion - not preserve dictatorships/paramilitary All types political regimes - 'lawful monopoly'
groups. Democracies used it e.g. US. use of coercion.
Detention Japanese Americans California WWII, Democracies - more restrained manner +
detention 'enemy combatants' Guantanamo Bay + use grievances pursued against state - legal practice,
white noise, stress positions + water boarding. critics outcome legal proceeding often
1 million civilians died - US invasion Iraq. unsatisfactory + in favour of 'establishment'.
GB = British army killing 14 unarmed civilians Derry City More empowered pop. question legitimacy of
1972. gov. less and coercive measures = less pervasive
Police responsible death G20 protestors Ian Tomlinson - stability easier to maintain.
2009.
500-600 die each year police custody.
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