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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: xiv, 434 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • unmediated
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ISBN:
  • 0300259360
  • 9780300259360
  • 9780300270488
  • 0300270488
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Contents:
Introduction: Something more tremendous than war -- Part I. The origins of the economic weapon. The machinery of blockade, 1914-1917 ; The birth of sanctions from the spirit of blockade, 1917-1919 ; The peacewar, 1919-1921 -- Part II. The legitimacy of the economic weapon. Calibrating the economic weapon, 1921-1924 ; Genevan world police, 1924-1927 ; Sanctionism versus neutrality, 1927-1931 -- Part III. Economic sanctions in the interwar crisis. Collective security against aggression, 1931-1935 ; The greatest experiment in modern history, 1935-1936 ; Blockade-phobia, 1936-1939 ; The positive economic weapon, 1939-1945 -- Conclusion: From antidote to alternative.
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 of colonial 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 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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



A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022



"Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy makers today."--Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal



"The lessons are sobering."-- The Economist



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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-416) and index.

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 of colonial 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 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.

Introduction: Something more tremendous than war -- Part I. The origins of the economic weapon. The machinery of blockade, 1914-1917 ; The birth of sanctions from the spirit of blockade, 1917-1919 ; The peacewar, 1919-1921 -- Part II. The legitimacy of the economic weapon. Calibrating the economic weapon, 1921-1924 ; Genevan world police, 1924-1927 ; Sanctionism versus neutrality, 1927-1931 -- Part III. Economic sanctions in the interwar crisis. Collective security against aggression, 1931-1935 ; The greatest experiment in modern history, 1935-1936 ; Blockade-phobia, 1936-1939 ; The positive economic weapon, 1939-1945 -- Conclusion: From antidote to alternative.

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