Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy

Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy
Author: Richard Haass
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1998
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780876092125

What cannot be disputed is that economic sanctions are increasingly at the center of American foreign policy: to stem the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, promote human rights, discourage aggression, protect the environment, and thwart drug trafficking.

The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis

The Economic Diplomacy of the Suez Crisis
Author: Diane B. Kunz
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780807819678

Diane Kunz describes here how the United States employed economic diplomacy to affect relations among states during the Suez Crisis of 1956-57. Using political and financial archival material from the United States and Great Britain, and drawing from pers

Economic Sanctions as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy

Economic Sanctions as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy
Author: Helen Osieja
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1581123140

Economic sanctions have been used as an instrument of American foreign policy ever since the Taft administration adopted the Dollar Diplomacy. This dissertation analyzes the trade Embargo the United States imposed upon Cuba after the Revolution from different perspectives: from the political, considering the main guidelines of American foreign policy toward Latin America, especially during the Cold War, and from the juridical, considering different perspectives of customary international law. Since the embargo was imposed only after American property had been expropriated without compensation, the dissertation analyzes the legality of expropriation, seen from the perspective of both capital-importing and capital-exporting countries, and the legality of economic sanctions as a legitimate peaceful reprisal. Due to the fact that the American embargo against Cuba is quasi-total, that is, consists of a number of different economic sanctions, it is the aim of this dissertation to analyze each of these, and finally, to assess the effectiveness of economic sanctions as an instrument of foreign policy. Many books and articles have been written about this very controversial embargo, almost as old as the Cuban Revolution itself. For the Cubans, it constitutes and "economic blockade", and a violation of Cuba's right to free trade; for the Americans, it is a reprisal for the confiscation of American property. Nonetheless, since the embargo, as stated above, is not a sanction itself but a number of different economic sanctions, it is the aim of this dissertation to analyze each of the sanctions that comprise the embargo and its legality, according to customary international law. Another aim of this dissertation is to prove why the American embargo against Cuba has only enhanced Castro's power and further centralized it. A brief chapter about the economic sanctions the United States imposed upon Chile under President Salvador Allende and the fall of his regime serves to compare the two cases with some similarities where sanctions were applied- in the first without success and in the second with success. Finally, the dissertation aims to prove that a lifting of the American embargo against Cuba is highly unlikely unless there is a change of regime in that nation of the Caribbean.

Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy

Economic Statecraft and Foreign Policy
Author: Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113622582X

This book develops a unified theory of economic statecraft to clarify when and how sanctions and incentives can be used effectively to secure meaningful policy concessions. High-profile applications of economic statecraft have yielded varying degrees of success. The mixed record of economic incentives and economic sanctions in many cases raises important questions. Under what conditions can states modify the behaviour of other states by offering them tangible economic rewards or by threatening to disrupt existing economic relations? To what extent does the success of economic statecraft depend on the magnitude of economic penalties and rewards? In order to answer these questions, this book develops two analytic models: one weighs the threats economic statecraft poses to the Target’s Strategic Interests (TSI); while the other (stateness) assesses the degree to which the target state is insulated from domestic political pressures that senders attempt to generate or exploit. Through a series of carefully crafted case studies, including African apartheid and Japanese incentives to obtain the return of the Northern Territories, the authors demonstrate how their model can yield important policy insights in regards to contemporary economic sanctions and incentives cases, such as Iran and North Korea. This book will be of much interest to students of statecraft, sanctions, diplomacy, foreign policy, and international security in general.

The Economic Weapon

The Economic Weapon
Author: Nicholas Mulder
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2022
Genre: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN: 0300259360

Tracing the history of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder combines political, economic, legal, and military history to reveal 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.

Economic Cold War

Economic Cold War
Author: Shu Guang Zhang
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2001
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780804739306

Why would one country impose economic sanctions against another in pursuit of foreign policy objectives? How effective is the use of such economic weapons? This book examines how and why the United States and its allies instituted economic sanctions against the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, and how the embargo affected Chinese domestic policy and the Sino-Soviet alliance.

Sanctions as War

Sanctions as War
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2021-12-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004501207

Sanctions as War is the first critical analysis of economic sanctions from a global perspective. Featuring case studies from 11 sanctioned countries and theoretical essays, it will be of immediate interest to those interested in understanding how sanctions became the common sense of American foreign policy.

Economic Sanctions

Economic Sanctions
Author: United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781987443660

NSIAD-92-106 Economic Sanctions: Effectiveness as Tools of Foreign Policy