Well, the challenge with coercive diplomacy is that it always manifests into unintended extension of violence. Often times coercion hardly taps into sources of voluntary and intrinsic desire for the diplomatic and peace objectives being pursued. Which is why we have guns blazing in Tigray, Lybia, Syria even today. The Machiavelli's obsession with coercive diplomacy, unless complimented with other strands of diplomacy, may hardly yield positive results.

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