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It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another wielding of economic sanctions. Given how frequently nations use them, you'd think sanctions were a sure-fire weapon. Yet the record is quite mixed. In
Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know®, eminent Bruce Jentleson--one of America's leading scholars on the subject--answers the fundamental questions about sanctions today: Why are they used to much? What are their varieties? What are the key factors affecting their success? And why have they become the tool of first resort for states engaged in international conflict?
List of contents
- Introduction: Puzzles Posed for International Relations Theory and Foreign Policy Strategy
- Part One: Scholarly Debates and Challenges EM
- Chapter 1: Economic Sanctions: What, Who, Why and How
- Chapter 2: Do Sanctions Work?: Measuring Success
- Chapter 3: Explaining Sanctions Success/Failure
- Part Two: Major Cases, Theory Applied, Policy Analyzed
- Chapter 4: Historical Perspective: Lessons from Past Sanctions Cases
- Chapter 5: United States: Foreign Policy Strategy and Domestic Politics
- Chapter 6: China's Use of Sanctions
- Chapter 7: Soviet Union/Russia: Energy Pipelines and Other Sanctions
- Chapter 8: United Nations and European Union: Multilateral and Regional Sanctions
- Conclusion: Sanctions Theory, Sanctions Policy
- Appendix: 2022 Russia-Ukraine War Sanctions
- Notes
- Index
About the author
Bruce W. Jentleson is William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke University, as well as a 2022 Distinguished Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He received the 2018 American Political Science Association (APSA) International Security Section Joseph J. Kruzel Award for Distinguished Public Service. He has served in a number of US foreign policy positions, including as Senior Advisor to the State Department Policy Planning Director (2009-11). He is Co-Director of the Bridging the Gap project promoting greater policy relevance among academics. His other books include The Peacemakers, American Foreign Policy, The End of Arrogance, and Pipeline Politics.
Summary
A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another.
It's hard to browse the news without seeing reports of yet another imposition of sanctions by one country on another. The United States has sanctions against more than 30 countries. Russia has repeatedly imposed sanctions against former Soviet republics. China has developed its own approach, including targeting private entities such as the NBA. And it's not just major powers: Japan and South Korea have sanctioned each other over WWII and colonial legacies; Saudi Arabia against Qatar because of differences over Iran; and France, Germany, and Norway against Brazil over the Amazon forest and climate change. In Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Bruce Jentleson--one of America's leading scholars on the subject--answers the fundamental questions about sanctions today: Why are they used so much? What are their varieties? What are the key factors affecting their success? Why have they become the tool of first resort for states engaged in international conflict? Jentleson demonstrates that examining sanctions is key to understanding international relations and explains how and why they will likely continue to bear on global politics.
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In a moment when sanctions dominate the headlines, Jentleson explore the questions everyone has - how and when do these crucial policy tools work. Complementing a review of the scholarly literature with in-depth case studies, this approachable book provides meaningful insight to anyone curious about the effectiveness of sanctions and how these complex policy tools can be used to shape world politics.
