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The economic weapon : the rise of sanctions as a tool of modern war / Nicholas Mulder.

Mulder, Nicholas, (author.).

Summary:

Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way to use the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their continuing 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 ofcolonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder combines extensive archival research with political, economic, legal, and military history to reveal how a coercive wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping bythe 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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  • ISBN: 0300259360
  • ISBN: 9780300259360
  • Physical Description: xiv, 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New Haven ; Yale University Press, [2022]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-416) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Something more tremendous than war -- Machinery of blockade, 1914-1917 -- Birth of sanctions from the spirit of blockade, 1917-1919 -- Peacewar, 1919-1921 -- Calibrating the economic weapon, 1921-1924 -- Genevan world police, 1924-2927 -- Sanctionism versus neutrality, 1926-1931 -- Collective security against aggression, 1931-1935 -- Greatest experiment in modern history, 1935-1936 -- Blockade-phobia, 1936-1939 -- Positive economic weapon, 1939-1945 -- Conclusion: From antidote to alternative.

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Economic sanctions > History > 20th century.
Economic sanctions > History > 21st century.
International economic relations > History > 20th century.
International economic relations > History > 21st century.
War > Economic aspects.

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