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

Auteur

Nicholas Mulder is an assistant professor of modern European history at Cornell University and regular contributor to Foreign Policy and The Nation.

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Tracing the history of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder reveals how a destructive technique of total war became adopted as an accepted instrument of peacekeeping and exposes the tremendous unintended consequences of this development.

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