Sanctions - What Everyone Needs to Know®

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?

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 a re 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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

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

Rezension:

I'm often told how vital and effective sanctions are. Then I trip across confident assertions that sanctions seldom accomplish what they're supposed to. So I'm thankful that experts like my Duke University colleague Bruce Jentleson are around to resolve my confusion and explain it all, as he does in his new book. Frank Bruni, The New York Times