Introduction: why are economic sanctions a form of war? -- Part 1: Theorizing and situating economic sanctions in international political economy -- Sactions as instrument of coercion: characteristics, limitations, and consequences -- Hunger politics: santions as siege warfare -- Economic sanctions, communication infrastructures, and the destruction of communicative sovereignty -- All the president's media: how news coverage of sanctions props up the power elite and legitimizes US hegemony -- Transnational allies of sanctions: NGO human rights organizations' role in reinforcing economic oppression -- Sanctioning China's tech industry to 'secure' Silicon Valley's global dominance -- Part 2: Profiles of sanctioned nation-states -- US sanctions Cuba 'to bring about hunger, desperation, and the overthrow of the government' -- The western frontier: US sanctions against North Korea and China -- A century of economic blackmail, sanctions and war against Iran -- Sanctions and nation breaking: Yugoslavia, 1990-2000 -- Targeted sanctions amd the failure of the regime change agenda in Zimbabwe -- Iraq: understanding the 'sanctions warfare regime' -- Writing out empire: the case of the Syria sanctions -- The blockade on Yemen -- The US war on Venezuela -- Trying to unbalance Russia: the fraudulent origins and impact of US sanctions on Russia -- The political economy of US sanctions against China -- Part 3: Resistance to economic sanctions and economic sanctions as resistance -- Blowback to US sanctions policy -- International solidarity against US counterinsurgency -- Boycott and sanctions as tactics in the South African anti-apatheid movement -- Settler colonialism, imperalism and sanctions from below: Palestine and the BDS movement -- Epilogue
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