Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

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

Index