Asymmetric network structures can allow actors controlling central nodes to exploit those positions for coercive leverage.

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 10: BUILDING-BLOCK REALITY The Great Rewiring

"Asymmetric network structures can allow actors controlling central nodes to exploit those positions for coercive leverage."

Farrell and Newman show how control over central network nodes can enable information gathering, chokepoints, and the coercive use of interdependence.

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Source title Weaponized Interdependence: How Global Economic Networks Shape State Coercion

Source authors Henry Farrell; Abraham L. Newman

Source year 2019

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