Sanctions as War
Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy
Published on 17. December 2021
Book
Hardback
411 pages
978-90-04-50119-5 (ISBN)
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Sanctions as War: Anti-imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy offers the first comprehensive account of economic sanctions as a tool for exercising American power on the global stage. Since the 1980s, the US has steadily increased its reliance on economic sanctions, or the imposition of extensive financial penalties for violation of given rules, to fight its foreign policy battles. Perceived as a less costly and damaging alternative to kinetic military engagement, economic sanctions have been levied against over 25 other countries. In the process, sanctions have destroyed thousands of innocent lives and wreaked inestimable damages to civil society.
To understand how sanctions function as a war-making strategy, this collection offers chapters that address the theory and history of economic sanctions as well as chapter-length case studies of sanctions exercised against the civilian populations of Iraq, Venezuela, and other nations.
Contiributors are: Shireen Al-Adeimi; Tim Beal; Renate Bridenthal; Jesse Bucher; Stuart Davis; Gregory Elich; Manu Karuka; Jeremy Kuzmarov; Fangfei Lin; Washington Mazorodze; Tanner Mirrlees; Corinna Mullin; Junki Nakahara; Nima Nakhaei; Immanuel Ness; Sarah Raymundo; Muhammad Sahimi; Saif Shahin; Greg Shupak; Gregory Wilpert; Zhun Xu; Helen Yaffe
To understand how sanctions function as a war-making strategy, this collection offers chapters that address the theory and history of economic sanctions as well as chapter-length case studies of sanctions exercised against the civilian populations of Iraq, Venezuela, and other nations.
Contiributors are: Shireen Al-Adeimi; Tim Beal; Renate Bridenthal; Jesse Bucher; Stuart Davis; Gregory Elich; Manu Karuka; Jeremy Kuzmarov; Fangfei Lin; Washington Mazorodze; Tanner Mirrlees; Corinna Mullin; Junki Nakahara; Nima Nakhaei; Immanuel Ness; Sarah Raymundo; Muhammad Sahimi; Saif Shahin; Greg Shupak; Gregory Wilpert; Zhun Xu; Helen Yaffe
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
1 s/w Tabelle, 3 s/w Zeichnungen
1 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
811 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-50119-5 (9789004501195)
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Stuart Davis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the City University of New York, Baruch College.
Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. He edits the Journal of Labor and Society. His most recent publications are Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South (Pluto Press, 2021) and The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2022).
Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. He edits the Journal of Labor and Society. His most recent publications are Organizing Insurgency: Workers' Movements in the Global South (Pluto Press, 2021) and The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2022).
Content
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1?Introduction Why Are Economic Sanctions a Form of War????
??Stuart?? ??Davis??? ?and? ???Immanuel?? ??Ness??????
part 1??
Theorizing and Situating Economic Sanctions in International Political Economy?
2?Sanctions as Instrument of Coercion Characteristics, Limitations, and Consequences???
??Tim?? ??Beal??????
3?Hunger Politics Sanctions as Siege Warfare???
??Manu?? ??Karuka??????
4?Economic Sanctions, Communication Infrastructures, and the Destruction of Communicative Sovereignty
??Stuart?? ??Davis??????
5?All the President's Media How News Coverage of Sanctions Props up the Power Elite and Legitimizes US Hegemony???
??Junki?? ??Nakahara??? ?and? ???Saif?? ??Shahin??????
6?Transnational Allies of Sanctions ngo?? Human Rights Organizations' Role in Reinforcing Economic Oppression???
??Immanuel?? ??Ness??????
7?Sanctioning China's Tech Industry to 'Secure' Silicon Valley's Global Dominance
??Tanner?? ??Mirrlees???????
part 2??
Profiles of Sanctioned Nation-States?
8?US Sanctions Cuba 'to Bring About Hunger, Desperation and the Overthrow of the Government'
??Helen?? ??Yaffe??????
9?The Western Frontier US Sanctions against North Korea and China???
??Tim?? ??Beal??????
10?A Century of Economic Blackmail, Sanctions and War against Iran
??Muhammad?? ??Sahimi??????
11?Sanctions and Nation Breaking Yugoslavia, 1990-2000???
??Gregory?? ??Elich??????
12?Targeted Sanctions and the Failure of the Regime Change Agenda in Zimbabwe
??Washington?? ??Mazorodze??????
13?Iraq Understanding the 'Sanctions Warfare Regime'???
??Nima?? ??Nakhaei??????
14?Writing out Empire The Case of the Syria Sanctions???
??Greg?? ??Shupak??????
15?The Blockade on Yemen
??Shireen?? ??Al-Adeimi??????
16?The US War on Venezuela
??Gregory?? ??Wilpert??????
17?Trying to Unbalance Russia The Fraudulent Origins and Impact of US Sanctions on Russia???
??Jeremy?? ??Kuzmarov??????
18?The Political Economy of US Sanctions against China
??Zhun?? ??Xu??? ?and? ???Fangfei?? ??Lin???????
part 3??
Resistance to Economic Sanctions and Economic Sanctions as Resistance?
19?Blowback to US Sanctions Policy
??Renate?? ??Bridenthal??????
20?International Solidarity against US Counterinsurgency
??Sarah?? ??Raymundo??????
21?Boycott and Sanctions as Tactics in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement
??Jesse?? ??Bucher??? ?and? ???Stuart?? ??Davis??????
22?Settler Colonialism, Imperialism and Sanctions from Below Palestine and the? bds?? Movement???
??Corinna?? ??Mullin??????
23?Epilogue
??Stuart?? ??Davis??? ?and? ???Immanuel?? ??Ness???????
Index
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
1?Introduction Why Are Economic Sanctions a Form of War????
??Stuart?? ??Davis??? ?and? ???Immanuel?? ??Ness??????
part 1??
Theorizing and Situating Economic Sanctions in International Political Economy?
2?Sanctions as Instrument of Coercion Characteristics, Limitations, and Consequences???
??Tim?? ??Beal??????
3?Hunger Politics Sanctions as Siege Warfare???
??Manu?? ??Karuka??????
4?Economic Sanctions, Communication Infrastructures, and the Destruction of Communicative Sovereignty
??Stuart?? ??Davis??????
5?All the President's Media How News Coverage of Sanctions Props up the Power Elite and Legitimizes US Hegemony???
??Junki?? ??Nakahara??? ?and? ???Saif?? ??Shahin??????
6?Transnational Allies of Sanctions ngo?? Human Rights Organizations' Role in Reinforcing Economic Oppression???
??Immanuel?? ??Ness??????
7?Sanctioning China's Tech Industry to 'Secure' Silicon Valley's Global Dominance
??Tanner?? ??Mirrlees???????
part 2??
Profiles of Sanctioned Nation-States?
8?US Sanctions Cuba 'to Bring About Hunger, Desperation and the Overthrow of the Government'
??Helen?? ??Yaffe??????
9?The Western Frontier US Sanctions against North Korea and China???
??Tim?? ??Beal??????
10?A Century of Economic Blackmail, Sanctions and War against Iran
??Muhammad?? ??Sahimi??????
11?Sanctions and Nation Breaking Yugoslavia, 1990-2000???
??Gregory?? ??Elich??????
12?Targeted Sanctions and the Failure of the Regime Change Agenda in Zimbabwe
??Washington?? ??Mazorodze??????
13?Iraq Understanding the 'Sanctions Warfare Regime'???
??Nima?? ??Nakhaei??????
14?Writing out Empire The Case of the Syria Sanctions???
??Greg?? ??Shupak??????
15?The Blockade on Yemen
??Shireen?? ??Al-Adeimi??????
16?The US War on Venezuela
??Gregory?? ??Wilpert??????
17?Trying to Unbalance Russia The Fraudulent Origins and Impact of US Sanctions on Russia???
??Jeremy?? ??Kuzmarov??????
18?The Political Economy of US Sanctions against China
??Zhun?? ??Xu??? ?and? ???Fangfei?? ??Lin???????
part 3??
Resistance to Economic Sanctions and Economic Sanctions as Resistance?
19?Blowback to US Sanctions Policy
??Renate?? ??Bridenthal??????
20?International Solidarity against US Counterinsurgency
??Sarah?? ??Raymundo??????
21?Boycott and Sanctions as Tactics in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement
??Jesse?? ??Bucher??? ?and? ???Stuart?? ??Davis??????
22?Settler Colonialism, Imperialism and Sanctions from Below Palestine and the? bds?? Movement???
??Corinna?? ??Mullin??????
23?Epilogue
??Stuart?? ??Davis??? ?and? ???Immanuel?? ??Ness???????
Index