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The Economic Weapon

The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War

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The Economic Weapon

By: Nicholas Mulder
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
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The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development

Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early 20th century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.

Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the policing of colonial empires and the interwar confrontation with fascism, Nicholas Mulder uses extensive archival research in a political, economic, legal, and military history that reveals how a coercive wartime tool was adopted as an instrument of peacekeeping by the League of Nations. This timely study casts an overdue light on why sanctions are widely considered a form of war, and why their unintended consequences are so tremendous.

©2022 Nicholas Mulder (P)2022 Tantor Economics Modern Politics & Government
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Very Good scientific Analysis, excellent Work, believable Characters as participants in situations that changed the world.

Awesome Speaker! Liam Gerrard as reader captivates you into the work, like you are are seeing everything unfold in front of you!

Five Stars, 10 out of 10, can recommend! Good Stuff, Me Likez It :)
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Faszinating Analysis, excellent Work

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but who chose the speaker? The voice is scratchy and unpleasant. It was hard to endure this to the end.

Excellent content,

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Learned a lot. Only annoyance was the pronunciation of German words - complete butchering. Still worth listening to

Very interesting story of intra world war embargo history

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