Societies under siege : exploring how international economic sanctions (do not) work /
Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratization, punish armed aggression or check nuclear proliferation. But how exactly is the economic pain inflicted by sanctions supposed to trans...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratization, punish armed aggression or check nuclear proliferation. But how exactly is the economic pain inflicted by sanctions supposed to translate into political gain? What are the mechanisms by which sanctions operate, or fail to operate? This is the first comparative study of this vital question. Drawing on Gramscian state theory, 'Societies under siege' provides a novel analytical framework to study how sanctions are mediated through the domestic political economy and state-society relations of target states and filter through into political outcomes, whether those sought by the states imposing sanctions or, as frequently occurs, unintended and even highly perverse consequences. Detailed case studies of sanctions aimed at regime change in three pivotal cases, South Africa, Iraq and Myanmar, are used to explore how different types of sanctions function across time and space. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198749325 0198749325 |