{"product_id":"sanctions-as-war-anti-imperialist-perspectives-on-american-geo-economic-strategy-9781642598124","title":"Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSanctions as War 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction Why Are Economic Sanctions a Form of War?   Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness  part 1 Theorizing and Situating Economic Sanctions in International Political Economy 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  part 2 Profiles of Sanctioned Nation-States 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  part 3 Resistance to Economic Sanctions and Economic Sanctions as Resistance 19 Blowback to US Sanctions Policy   Renate Bridenthal  20 International Solidarity against US 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","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020205097303,"sku":"9781642598124","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sanctions-as-war-anti-imperialist-perspectives-on-american-geo-economic-strategy-9781642598124","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}