Coercive Threats Without Corresponding Assurances

• In Event: International Security and Conflict

Brief Overview

The typical crisis signaling game assumes a threatener can credibly assure a target's security after its concession. Relaxing this assumption, I show the lack of such assurances alters how costly threats affect a target's belief and crisis outcome.

Author

• Shusuke Ioku, Waseda University, Graduate School of Political Science