# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Talk – The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 07 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm – Thu, 07 May, 2026 at 04:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: -About this EventReid Pauly is the author of The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma (Cornell University Press, 2025). In the book, Pauly presents a fresh explanation for the success - and failure - of coercive demands in international politics. Strong states are surprisingly bad at coercion. History shows they prevail only a third of the time.Pauly argues that coercion often fails because targets fear punishment even if they comply. In this "damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario, targets have little reason to obey. Pauly illustrates this logic in nuclear counterproliferation efforts with South Africa, Iraq, Libya, and Iran. He shows that coercers face an "assurance dilemma": when threats are more credible, assurances not to punish are less so. But without credible assurances, targets may defy threats, bracing for seemingly inevitable punishment.Packed with insights for any foreign policy challenge involving coercive strategies, The Art of Coercion is a vital corrective to assumptions that tougher threats alone achieve results.About the speakerReid Pauly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University and the Dean’s Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs. He studies nuclear proliferation and nuclear strategy, coercion, secrecy in international politics, and wargaming. Pauly is the author of The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma (Cornell University Press, 2025). His scholarship has also been published in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, the European Journal of International Relations, and Foreign Affairs. Pauly earned his Ph.D. from MIT and has held fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum, and Dartmouth College’s Dickey Center for International Understanding.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/book-talk-the-art-of-coercion-credible-threats-and-the-assurance-dilemma/100001984378277847
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- **city**: London
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Bush House (NE) -1.01
- **lat**: 51.512894
- **long**: -0.1172551
- **full address**: Bush House (NE) -1.01, 30 Aldwych, London, United Kingdom

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- **Q**: When and where is Book Talk – The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma being held?
  - **A:** Book Talk – The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma takes place on Thu, 07 May, 2026 at 02:00 pm to Thu, 07 May, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Bush House (NE) -1.01, 30 Aldwych, London, United Kingdom.
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