Russia and the EU are closely monitoring the election, having offered major economic inducements to tilt Belarus in their direction.
To get a nuclear deal, the United States will have to lift sanctions and provide economic inducements to a ruthless dictator.
It informs the use of economic inducements worldwide to get people to smoke or eat less, exercise more, have more children or fewer.
These facts are also significantly recognized by communist regimes; by controlling all means of production, they can offer great economic inducements or threaten people's livelihood, thus making them a very attentive audience for propaganda.
Without the political willingness and the financial capability to garrison the region in the manner of postwar Germany and Japan, U.S. influence has to be exercised through air power, political proxies, economic inducements, and regional alliances.
The second is the set of economic inducements (gifts, bribery, pay raises, threats of job loss, and so forth) which the propagandist or others may apply in conjunction with the symbols.
The threat of war has not gone away - hundreds of missiles are aimed at Taiwan - but the mainland has put more effort into wooing Taiwan with economic inducements and high-profile visits by opposition leaders.
The threat that it presents is almost certainly manageable via a combination of diplomacy and economic inducements, a path that South Korea seems determined to pursue, despite discouragement from Washington.
"Although the United States seeks to continue to cooperate with China, China is using economic inducements and penalties, influence operations, and implied military threats to persuade other states to heed its political and security agenda," the strategy states.
CHICAGO, Oct. 31 — Senator Barack Obama said he would "engage in aggressive personal diplomacy" with Iran if elected president, and would offer economic inducements and a possible promise not to seek "regime change" if Iran stopped meddling in Iraq and cooperated on terrorism and nuclear issues.
