Russia and the EU are closely monitoring the election, having offered major economic inducements to tilt Belarus in their direction.
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.
It has brushed off offers by the six countries of wide-ranging economic and political inducements, including co-operation in less proliferation-prone nuclear technologies, once it stops enrichment.
Neutrals or opponents are not apt to be much affected even by an intensive barrage of propaganda unless it is reinforced by nonpropagandistic inducements (economic or coercive acts) or by favourable social pressures.
Even after the Bush administration grudgingly joined Europe, Russia and China in offering a deal (economic and political inducements if Iran stopped producing nuclear fuel, sanctions if it did not), Tehran relentlessly advanced its ability to produce nuclear fuel.
