The Iraq crisis has entered a period of intensely coercive diplomacy.

He called it a "textbook example of coercive diplomacy."

Joseph Nye emphasizes that coercive diplomacy depends upon the credibility and the cost of the threat.

According to Alexander George, coercive diplomacy seeks to achieve three objectives.

A scholarly journal referred to the bombing of Libya as "coercive diplomacy."

The cost of containment, or as some said, coercive diplomacy, and so forth, would have been very, very high all by itself.

If "coercive diplomacy" does not move Saddam Hussein within a few months, there will be mounting pressure to use that force.

The logical method would be concerted and coercive diplomacy.

The first casualty is likely to be the effort to use coercive diplomacy to disarm Iraq.

If that is so, our "coercive diplomacy" will have turned out to be a colossal failure.