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The Economic Weapon

by Nicholas Mulder · 15 Mar 2021

stages of concluding a mutual assistance treaty with the Soviet Union and proposed to capitalize on this impending alliance by stopping Germany’s rearmament with targeted sanctions. Paris wanted to steer clear of a food blockade that would enable Nazi propagandists to claim the League was trying to “starve out the German

Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat

by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff · 15 Oct 2018 · 568pp · 164,014 words

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford · 14 Sep 2020 · 696pp · 184,001 words

Portela, European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy: When and Why Do They Work?, 160 (Routledge 2010). 102.Clara Portela, Enforcing Respect for Labour Standards with Targeted Sanctions, 7 (2018). 103.Laura Beke & Nicolas Hachez, supra note 100, at 207. 104.Commission Report on GSP 2016-2017, 19 January 2018, COM (2018) 36

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson · 14 Apr 2020 · 491pp · 141,690 words

first, in order to soften up the target financially from the inside, followed by direct military action always framed as just and limited to military targets. Sanctions as a Tool for Regime Change Sanctions are used as a tool to cut off funding and punish countries that are not falling in line

The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House

by Ben Rhodes · 4 Jun 2018 · 470pp · 148,444 words

FALL. The forty-five-year-old dictator, Bashar al-Assad, responded with mass arrests and torture. We deployed the now familiar tools: public condemnation and targeted sanctions. But this was not Egypt—Syria was an adversary that could tune out the United States and count on the support of Iran and Russia

The Hidden History of Burma

by Thant Myint-U

gets to the guy at the top.” “I get that! Hey, if you were me, what would you do?” “Lift sanctions.” “But we have just targeted sanctions.” “No, not really. There are trade and investment sanctions, sanctions on development assistance.” The president then turned to Chris Hill, his assistant secretary of state

Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy

by Adam Tooze · 15 Nov 2021 · 561pp · 138,158 words

an investigation into Huawei and another Chinese telecom firm, ZTE. That resulted in both being banned from U.S. public procurement. ZTE was subject to targeted sanctions. In 2018 the Trump administration reached a settlement with ZTE but dramatically stepped up its pressure on Huawei. Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s CFO and the

Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety

by Gideon Rachman · 1 Feb 2011 · 391pp · 102,301 words

striking deals with other authoritarian governments. China’s opposition to international action is not absolute and unvarying. The authorities in Beijing did agree to mild, targeted sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program. And China has become an increasingly important participant in UN peacekeeping missions, unlike the United States, which is still

Modernising Money: Why Our Monetary System Is Broken and How It Can Be Fixed

by Andrew Jackson (economist) and Ben Dyson (economist) · 15 Nov 2012 · 363pp · 107,817 words

’s president, Robert Mugabe, and other members of the leading party ZANU-PF, have been eager to blame the continuous years of drought and the targeted sanctions of Western countries as the main reasons for the economic decay. Yet these claims are easily refuted - sanctions on top government officials only came into

Dirty Secrets How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy

by Richard Murphy · 14 Sep 2017 · 241pp · 63,981 words

; it made clear that, in the view of the governments issuing the statement, secrecy was at the heart of the problem, and it suggested that targeted sanctions could address the issues arising. Each idea was interesting, but the proposed solution that emerged from that summit was fundamentally wrong. In fact, it can