TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mulder,Nicholas
TI  - The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War 
SN  - 0300259360
AV  - HF1413.5 .M85 2022
U1  - 327.1/170904 23
KW  - Economic sanctions
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - International economic relations
KW  - War
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Commerce
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-416) and index; Introduction : Something more tremendous than war -- The origins of the economic weapon -- The legitimacy of the economic weapon --Economic sanctions in the interwar crisis
N2  - 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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