The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions As a Tool of Modern War - Couverture souple

Mulder, Nicholas

 
9780300270488: The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions As a Tool of Modern War
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ISBN 10 : 0300270488 ISBN 13 : 9780300270488
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2023

Synopsis

The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development<br />  <br />“Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy makers today.”―Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal<br />  <br /> “The lessons are sobering.”―The Economist<br />  <br />“Original and persuasive. . . . For those who see economic sanctions as a relatively mild way of expressing displeasure at a country’s behavior, this book . . . will come as something of a revelation.”―Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs<br />  <br /> Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.<br />  <br /> Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival research in a political, economic, legal, and military history that reveals how a coercive wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the League of Nations. This timely study casts an overdue light on why sanctions are widely considered a form of war, and why their unintended consequences are so tremendous.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nicholas Mulder is an assistant professor of modern European history at Cornell University and regular contributor to Foreign Policy and The Nation.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300270488
ISBN 13 
9780300270488
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
448
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9780300259360: The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions As a Tool of Modern War

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ISBN 10 :  0300259360 ISBN 13 :  9780300259360
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2022
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