section_path: Theories/Appeasement and deterrence
section_name: Appeasement and deterrence
paragraph_text: Appeasement and deterrence
  
  Appeasement is a strategy to achieve peace by making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power. Deterrence is a strategy to achieve peace by using threats or limited force to dissuade an actor from escalating conflict, typically because the prospective attacker believes that the probability of success is low and the costs of attack are high.