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  • The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
  • By: Nicholas Mulder
  • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
  • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)
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Summary

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

Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th 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.
©2022 Nicholas Mulder (P)2022 Tantor
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20th Century Economic History Politics & Government
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Thorough - maybe change title?

It's thorough and expert and well read. Very interesting in parts. It's just mostly about the history of sanctions, largely WW1/2 and intervening periods (in detail). Which is fine, but like others I maybe expected/wanted discussion of modern sanctions (Iran, North Korea etc). Set me up with a good foundation of knowledge to now find that though.

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