- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Economic Weapon (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Economic Weapon (Online)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-416) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- ISBN
- LCCN
- 2021939589
- OCLC
- ssj0002571170
- Author
Mulder, Nicholas.
- Title
The Economic Weapon [electronic resource] : The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War / Nicholas Mulder.
- Imprint
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-416) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Chronological Term
1900-2099