 In their book "The Dynamics of Coercion-American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might", Daniel Byman and Matthew Waxman define coercive diplomacy as "getting the adversary to act a certain way via anything short of brute force; the adversary must still have the capacity of organized violence but choose not to exercise it".Coercion strategy "relies on the threat of future military force to influence an adversary's decision making but may also include limited uses of actual force".Joseph Nye emphasizes that coercive diplomacy depends upon the credibility and the cost of the threat.