Sanctions as War

Stuart Davis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the City University of New York, Baruch College.Immanuel Ness is Professor of Political Science at City University of New York and Visiting Professor of Sociology at University of Johannesburg. He edits the Journal of Labor and Society. His most recent publications are Organizing Insurgency: Workers’ Movements in the Global South and The Oxford Handbook of Economic Imperialism

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction Why Are Economic Sanctions a Form of War?Stuart Davis and Immanuel Nesspart 1Theorizing and Situating Economic Sanctions in International Political Economy2 Sanctions as Instrument of Coercion Characteristics, Limitations, and ConsequencesTim Beal3 Hunger Politics Sanctions as Siege WarfareManu Karuka4 Economic Sanctions, Communication Infrastructures, and the Destruction of Communicative SovereigntyStuart Davis5 All the President’s Media How News Coverage of Sanctions Props up the Power Elite and Legitimizes US HegemonyJunki Nakahara and Saif Shahin6 Transnational Allies of Sanctions ngo Human Rights Organizations’ Role in Reinforcing Economic OppressionImmanuel Ness7 Sanctioning China’s Tech Industry to ‘Secure’ Silicon Valley’s Global DominanceTanner Mirrleespart 2Profiles of Sanctioned Nation-States8 US Sanctions Cuba ‘to Bring About Hunger, Desperation and the Overthrow of the Government’Helen Yaffe9 The Western Frontier US Sanctions against North Korea and ChinaTim Beal10 A Century of Economic Blackmail, Sanctions and War against IranMuhammad Sahimi11 Sanctions and Nation Breaking Yugoslavia, 1990–2000Gregory Elich12 Targeted Sanctions and the Failure of the Regime Change Agenda in ZimbabweWashington Mazorodze13 Iraq Understanding the ‘Sanctions Warfare Regime’Nima Nakhaei14 Writing out Empire The Case of the Syria SanctionsGreg Shupak15 The Blockade on YemenShireen Al-Adeimi16 The US War on VenezuelaGregory Wilpert17 Trying to Unbalance Russia The Fraudulent Origins and Impact of US Sanctions on RussiaJeremy Kuzmarov18 The Political Economy of US Sanctions against ChinaZhun Xu and Fangfei Linpart 3Resistance to Economic Sanctions and Economic Sanctions as Resistance19 Blowback to US Sanctions PolicyRenate Bridenthal20 International Solidarity against US CounterinsurgencySarah Raymundo21 Boycott and Sanctions as Tactics in the South African Anti-Apartheid MovementJesse Bucher and Stuart Davis22 Settler Colonialism, Imperialism and Sanctions from Below Palestine and the bds MovementCorinna Mullin23 EpilogueStuart Davis and Immanuel NessIndex