1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions

Edited By Ksenia Kirkham Copyright 2024
360 Pages 19 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 19 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 19 Color & 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions examines the core issues and debates surrounding this controversial topic, introducing readers to essential concepts and terms. It communicates the evolving character of international sanctions from diverse perspectives, with a particular emphasis on questions of efficacy, legality, and legitimacy of sanctions, as well as the... Read more

Introduction

Ksenia Kirkham

Section 1. Theoretical and Historical Aspects of Sanctions

1. The Evaluation of Sanctions Efficacy

Clara Portela

2. A Brief Overview of the Evolution of the Use of Unilateral Sanctions

Hazar Kaan Özkonak

3. Theoretical Aspects of Sanctions

Hajime Okusako

4. Theoretical Identification of the Mechanisms of Sanctions

Ksenia Kirkham, Yifan Jia and Yeseul Woo

5. Sanctions, Deterrence and the Recent Case of Russia

Wyn Bowen and Matthew Moran

Section 2. Political Economy of Sanctions

6. International Sanctions on Oil: Why Some Target States are More Capable of Avoiding Them

Adnan Vatansever

7. Financial Blacklisting and the Return Toward Indiscriminate Sanctions

Joy Gordon

8. The Termination of International Sanctions: Actors, Processes and Consequences

Hana Attia, Julia Grauvogel and Christian von Soest

9. Violence at a Distance: Correcting International Law’s Short-Sighted Vision of Economic Coercion

Alexandra Hofer

10. Sanctions when Sanctions Fail: Decoupling and US Policy Towards China

Zeno Leoni, Mariam Qureshi and Sandra Watson Parcels

11. Unilateral Sanctions as Sustainable Development Decelerators

Vira Ameli

Section 3. Target States: Voices from the Sanctioned States

12. Do Sanctions Really Work? The Case of Contemporary Western Sanctions against Russia

Ivan Timofeev

13. The US Sanctions and the Chinese Political Economy

Zhun Xu and Lingyi Wei

14. Iranian Discourses and Practices on the US Sanctions: Rouhani and Raeisi Administrations

Heidarali Masoudi

15. The Political Economy of Sanctions: The Case of Cuba

Raúl Rodríguez Rodríguez

16. The Unintended Consequences of African Union Sanctions of Member States: Myths and Realities

Francis Boateng Frimpong

Section 4. Third Parties: The Impact of Secondary Sanctions

17. Implications of Drifting Sanction Policies by Japan and Korea

Noboru Miyawaki

18. The U.S. Sanctions Offensive: Implications for ‘Third Parties’ and the Transatlantic Relationship

Alan Cafruny

19. The Impact of Western Sanctions on Global Supply Chains and the Green Transition: The Case of EV Battery Manufacturing in South Korea and the EU

Ksenia Kirkham and Alen Toplišek

20. How Do Third Parties React to Commodity Sanctions?

Martijn C. Vlaskamp

21. Overview of Secondary Sanctions: Turkey Under the Ghost of Western Economic Sanctions

Mehmet Onder

22. Emerging India and Sanctions: Balancing Norms and Interests

Rishika Chauhan

Section 5. Hot Debates: Legal Aspects of Sanctions

23. Humanitarian Impact of Unilateral Sanctions

Alena F. Douhan

24. US Secondary Sanctions: Lawful After All?

Joshua Andresen

25. The Principle of Non-Intervention and the Dilemma of the Legality of the Unilateral Coercive Measures

Pouria Askari

26. Assessing the Legality of the EU Sanctions Imposed on the Russian Federation from 2022

Antonino Alì

Biography

Ksenia Kirkham is a Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, UK. Her current research interests include economic warfare, energy security and sustainable development, the political economy of sanctions, and welfare state regimes.