The Neo-Compellence: Is the Diplomacy of Violence a new Reality for International Relations?

... apprehension in those days is the putting into practice of the contemporary diplomacy of violence [xxviii] exposed by the theorists of compellence. Those who had thought that a world challenge through proxy wars and the use of non-military means of war could have ... ... same scale of intensity. [ii] Ibid. [iii] It was the epoch (on the rhetorical level, but today on the implementation level, USA willy-nilly) of America in retreat [cf. B. Stephens, America in Retreat. The New Isolationism and the Coming Global Disorder ...