Military Pressure for Diplomatic results

[humancalculator]

I believe that as an Authortairian power you should be able to put 'military pressure' on another nation in order to coerce them into doing what you want them to do. You could militaryily pressure a country to replace their government, give you militry access, accept a bad (for them) trade deal, etc.. This could represent some of the most pivotal moments in history where a large nation "bullied" a small nation into doing something for them.

 

[Myth]

IMHO it shouldn't be limited to just authoritarian governments, and should be more flexible but at the same time throw it under the hood. Thus, instead of just basing diplomatic chances on relations and code in the AI files there should be a system in place that would compare the approximate disparities in military strength (land vs land, naval vs naval, air vs air, choose any or all as applicable), disparities in economic strength (especially if they're sharing trade agreements), strategic interests (possibly represented by national decisions or something as in In Nomine), sliders such as hawk lobby/interventionism/authoritarianism, and whatnot. Of course, this isn't an exhaustive proposal but just some basic ideas in creating a more flexible basis for diplomacy.

 

[humancalculator]

You obviously gave more thought to this than me. i agree with everything you just said. I will just add two thing- that if you are so far itolationist then you cant use it, or too far peace lobby.

 

[Myth]

It's not that I gave it that much more thought, it's just that what I'm studying is quite relevant. But yes, such a system would have to take those sliders into account. The more isolationist and peace lobby country A is, the less its relative power will impact the diplomatic decision-making process of country B since there's that much less chance that it'll be used. It could also take into account alliances, and general geostrategic position (nothing elaborate, but just "is this country, or any of its allies, willing to use force to achieve its ends and are any of them near enough to be to make this threat of force credible?").