Sanctions as War

Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50119-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 212, 395 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 811 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Davis, Stuart

Ness, Immanuel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

1. Introduction: Why are Economic Sanctions a Form of War?

Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness

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

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

19. Blowback to US Sanctions Policy

Renate Bridenthal

20. International Solidarity against U.S. 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

Über Autor(innen)

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).