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Societies under siege : exploring how international economic sanctions (do not) work
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Societies under siege : exploring how international economic sanctions (do not) work / Lee Jones.
ISBN
9780198749325
0198749325
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
xiv, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratisation, 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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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 21, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-224) and index (pages 225-237)
Contents
List of figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations. Introduction: The sanctions debate : The mainstream sanctions debate
Shifting the debate: towards "mechanisms"
Outline of the book. 1 A political theory of sanctions : Liberal theories of sanctions
Public choice theories of sanctions
Institutionalist "regime type" approaches
The neo-Weberian theory of sanctions
A social conflict analysis of sanctions
SCA'S basic foundations: Gramscian state theory
Social conflict analysis of sanctions
Methodology. 2 South Africa: sanctioning apartheid : South Africa's coalitional struggles
Classical apartheid: from colonial origins to the 1960s
"Reform apartheid:" from the 1970s to the 1980s
The impact of early sanctions: oil and arms
The oil embargo
The arms embargo
The long-term consequences
Later sanctions: disinvestment, finance, and trade
Disinvestment
Finance and trade
Impact on social conflict
Conclusion. 3 Myanmar: sanctioning military rule : Myanmar's coalitional struggles
Social conflict in Myanmar from independence to 1990
The military regime's coalitional and transition strategy
The opposition coalition and transition strategy
The material and distributional consequences of sanctions
Trade: reorientation towards Asia
Garments
Timber
Jade and gemstones
Investment: concentrating development in Asian-oriented primary sectors
Disinvestment
Tourism
The dollar ban
Overseas aid and assistance
Targeted sanctions: visa bans and asset freezes
Arms embargoes
Summary
Sanctions' impact on coalitional struggles
The ruling SLORC/SPDC Coalition
The Opposition Coalition
Conclusion. 4 Iraq: sanctioning dictatorship : Iraq's coalitional struggles
Iraq's ruling coalition
The Opposition Coalition
The economic impact of sanctions on Iraq
Phase one: 1990-6
Phase two: 1996-2003
The impact of sanctions on Iraqi social conflict: 1990-6
Regime responses, 1990-2
Regime responses, 1992-6
Sanctions and the Iraqi Opposition, 1990-6
Iraq's coalitional struggles under the OFFP
Regime responses to the OFFP
The Opposition under the OFFP
Conclusion. Conclusion : Sanctions and ruling coalitions
Sanctions and opposition forces
Targeted sanctions: not so "Smart?"
Rethinking the appeal of sanctions
Recommendations for sanctions advocates and policymakers
Abandon analogical reasoning
Planning and evaluating sanctions. Bibliography
Index.
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