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Sanctions as war : anti-imperialist perspectives on American geo-economic strategy /

This book offers an 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 poli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davis, Stuart H. (Editor ), Ness, Immanuel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Colección:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 212.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Why are economic sanctions a form of war? / Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness
  • Sanctions as instrument of coercion : characteristics, limitations, and consequences / Tim Beal
  • Hunger politics : sanctions as siege warfare / Manu Karuka
  • Economic sanctions, communication infrastructures, and the destruction of communicative sovereignty / Stuart Davis
  • All the President's media : how news coverage of sanctions props up the power elite and legitimizes US hegemony / Junki Nakahara and Saif Shahin
  • Transnational allies of sanctions : NGO human rights organizations' role in reinforcing economic oppression / Immanuel Ness
  • Sanctioning China's tech industry to "secure' Silicon Valley's global dominance / Tanner Mirrlees
  • US sanctions Cuba "to bring about hunger, desperation and the overthrow of the government" / Helen Yaffe
  • The western frontier : US sanctions against North Korea and China / Tim Beal
  • A century of economic blackmail, sanctions and war against Iran / Muhammad Sahimi
  • Sanctions and nation breaking : Yugoslavia, 1990-2000 / Gregory Elich
  • Targeted sanctions and the failure of the regime change agenda in Zimbabwe / Washington Mazorodze
  • Iraq : understanding the "sanctions warfare regime" / Nima Nakhaei
  • Writing out empire : the case of the Syria sanctions / Greg Shupak
  • The blockade on Yemen / Shireen Al-Adeimi
  • The US war on Venezuela / Gregory Wilpert
  • Trying to unbalance Russia : the fraudulent origins and impact of US sanctions on Russia / Jeremy Kuzmarov
  • The political economy of US sanctions against China / Zhun Xu and Fangfei Lin
  • Blowback to US sanctions policy / Renate Bridenthal
  • International solidarity against US counterinsurgency / Sarah Raymundo
  • BOycott and sanctions as tactics in the South African anti-Apartheid movement / Jesse Bucher and Stuart Davis
  • Settler colonialism, imperialism and sanctions from below : Palestine and the BDS movement / Corinna Mullin.