Synopses & Reviews
Economic sanctions have become an increasingly popular instrument of foreign policy. They have been used with increasing incidence to discourage or punish a variety of objectionable practices--such as terrorism, ethnic cleansing, nuclear proliferation, human rights abuses--by states and multilateral organizations such as the UN and NATO. Yet much controversy characterizes the debate about both the motivations behind the initiation of economic sanctions and the consequences following from their imposition. This collection of essays seeks to illuminate this debate through a combination of different methodologies and cases.
Review
It makes a real contribution to the study of economic statecraft and should be of interest to a broad range of readers.
International Politics
Synopsis
List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors List of Acronyms Sanctions as Economic Statecraft: An Overview; S.Chan & A.Cooper Drury How and Whom the US President Sanctions: A Time-Series, Cross-Section Analysis of US Sanction Decisions and Characteristics; A.Cooper Drury Who's Afraid of Economic Incentives? The Efficacy-Externality Tradeoff; J.Davidson & G.Shambaugh Economic Sanctions: The Cuba Embargo Revisited; D.W.Fisk The US-North Korean Agreed Framework: Incentives-Based Diplomacy after the Cold War; C.H.Martin The US Debate on MFN Status in China; S.Chan Economic Sanctions, Domestic Politics and the Decline of Rhodesian Tobacco, 1965-1979; D.M.Rowe A Public Choice Analysis of the Political Economy of International Sanctions; W.H.Kaempfer & A.D.Lowenberg Sanctions as Signals: A Line in the Sand of a Lack of Resolve?; V.Schwebach The Complex Causation of Sanction Outcomes; D.W.Drezner Index
Synopsis
This book approaches economic sanctions as a form of statecraft in order to better study the oft used but not well understood policy. The chapters study a variety of historical and current cases involving the use of economic threats and promises. Their authors come from both academic and policy making fields, as well as different disciplinary backgrounds (political science and economics). They apply different research approaches (case studies, statistical analysis, formal economics) to increase our understanding of the sanction puzzle.
About the Author
Steve Chan is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado.
A. Cooper Drury is Tower Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies, Department of Political Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas.
Table of Contents
Sanctions as Economic Statecraft: An Overview--Steve Chan & A. Cooper Drury * A Century of Economic Sanctions: A Field Revisited--Peter Wallensteen * How and Whom the US President Sanctions: A Time-Series, Cross Section Analysis of US Sanctions Decisions and Characteristics--A. Cooper Drury * Who's Afraid of Economic Incentives? The Efficacy-Externality Tradeoff--Jason Davidson & George Shambaugh * Economic Sanctions: The Cuba Embargo Revisited--Daniel W. Fisk * The US-North Korean Agreed Framework: Incentives-Based Diplomacy after the Cold War--Curtis H. Martin * The US Debate on MFN Status for China--Steve Chan * Economic Sanctions, Domestic Politics and the Decline of Rhodesian Tobacco, 1965-1979--David M. Rowe * A Public Choice Analysis of the Political Economy of International Sanctions--William H. Kaempfer & Anton D. Lowenberg * Sanctions as Signals: A Line in the Sand or a Lack of Resolve?--Valerie Schwebach * The Complex Causation of Sanction Outcomes--Daniel W. Drezzner