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

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1 Introduction Why Are Economic Sanctions a Form of War?

  Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness


part 1

Theorizing and Situating Economic Sanctions in International Political Economy

2 Sanctions as Instrument of Coercion Characteristics, Limitations, and Consequences

  Tim Beal


3 Hunger Politics Sanctions as Siege Warfare

  Manu Karuka


4 Economic Sanctions, Communication Infrastructures, and the Destruction of Communicative Sovereignty

  Stuart Davis


5 All the President’s Media How News Coverage of Sanctions Props up the Power Elite and Legitimizes US Hegemony

  Junki Nakahara and Saif Shahin


6 Transnational Allies of Sanctions ngo Human Rights Organizations’ Role in Reinforcing Economic Oppression

  Immanuel Ness


7 Sanctioning China’s Tech Industry to ‘Secure’ Silicon Valley’s Global Dominance

  Tanner Mirrlees


part 2

Profiles of Sanctioned Nation-States

8 US Sanctions Cuba ‘to Bring About Hunger, Desperation and the Overthrow of the Government’

  Helen Yaffe


9 The Western Frontier US Sanctions against North Korea and China

  Tim Beal


10 A Century of Economic Blackmail, Sanctions and War against Iran

  Muhammad Sahimi


11 Sanctions and Nation Breaking Yugoslavia, 1990–2000

  Gregory Elich


12 Targeted Sanctions and the Failure of the Regime Change Agenda in Zimbabwe

  Washington Mazorodze


13 Iraq Understanding the ‘Sanctions Warfare Regime’

  Nima Nakhaei


14 Writing out Empire The Case of the Syria Sanctions

  Greg Shupak


15 The Blockade on Yemen

  Shireen Al-Adeimi


16 The US War on Venezuela

  Gregory Wilpert


17 Trying to Unbalance Russia The Fraudulent Origins and Impact of US Sanctions on Russia

  Jeremy Kuzmarov


18 The Political Economy of US Sanctions against China

  Zhun Xu and Fangfei Lin


part 3

Resistance to Economic Sanctions and Economic Sanctions as Resistance

19 Blowback to US Sanctions Policy

  Renate Bridenthal


20 International Solidarity against US Counterinsurgency

  Sarah Raymundo


21 Boycott and Sanctions as Tactics in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement

  Jesse Bucher and Stuart Davis


22 Settler Colonialism, Imperialism and Sanctions from Below Palestine and the bds Movement

  Corinna Mullin


23 Epilogue

  Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness


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