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

The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions As a Tool of Modern War
ISBN-10
0300259360
ISBN-13
9780300259360
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2022-01-11
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
Nicholas Mulder

Description

The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development 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. 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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