Author Biography

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 and The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction Why Are Economic Sanctions a Form of War?  Stuart Davis and Immanuel Nesspart 1Theorizing and Situating Economic Sanctions in International Political Economy2 Sanctions as Instrument of Coercion Characteristics, Limitations, and Consequences  Tim Beal3 Hunger Politics Sanctions as Siege Warfare  Manu Karuka4 Economic Sanctions, Communication Infrastructures, and the Destruction of Communicative Sovereignty  Stuart Davis5 All the President's Media How News Coverage of Sanctions Props up the Power Elite and Legitimizes US Hegemony  Junki Nakahara and Saif Shahin6 Transnational Allies of Sanctions ngo Human Rights Organizations' Role in Reinforcing Economic Oppression  Immanuel Ness7 Sanctioning China's Tech Industry to 'Secure' Silicon Valley's Global Dominance  Tanner Mirrleespart 2Profiles of Sanctioned Nation-States8 US Sanctions Cuba 'to Bring About Hunger, Desperation and the Overthrow of the Government'  Helen Yaffe9 The Western Frontier US Sanctions against North Korea and China  Tim Beal10 A Century of Economic Blackmail, Sanctions and War against Iran  Muhammad Sahimi11 Sanctions and Nation Breaking Yugoslavia, 1990–2000  Gregory Elich12 Targeted Sanctions and the Failure of the Regime Change Agenda in Zimbabwe  Washington Mazorodze13 Iraq Understanding the 'Sanctions Warfare Regime'  Nima Nakhaei14 Writing out Empire The Case of the Syria Sanctions  Greg Shupak15 The Blockade on Yemen  Shireen Al-Adeimi16 The US War on Venezuela  Gregory Wilpert17 Trying to Unbalance Russia The Fraudulent Origins and Impact of US Sanctions on Russia  Jeremy Kuzmarov18 The Political Economy of US Sanctions against China  Zhun Xu and Fangfei Linpart 3Resistance to Economic Sanctions and Economic Sanctions as Resistance19 Blowback to US Sanctions Policy  Renate Bridenthal20 International Solidarity against US Counterinsurgency  Sarah Raymundo21 Boycott and Sanctions as Tactics in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement  Jesse Bucher and Stuart Davis22 Settler Colonialism, Imperialism and Sanctions from Below Palestine and the bds Movement  Corinna Mullin23 Epilogue  Stuart Davis and Immanuel NessIndex

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Sanctions 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

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This volume will be of particular interest to researchers, students, and policy workers involved in international relations, but will also appeal to some general readers who follow the work of Noam Chomsky and other popular critics of US foreign policy.

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