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The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

by Nicholas Mulder

Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth 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 sanct

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780300259360