Modern Economic Warfare

Author : Nicholas Mulder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300262520

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The Economic Weapon by Nicholas Mulder Pdf

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 twentieth 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.

Author : Teoman M. Hagemeyer-Witzleb
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030728465

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The International Law of Economic Warfare by Teoman M. Hagemeyer-Witzleb Pdf

Since the prohibition of the threat or use of force and the resurgence of (economic) nationalism, economic warfare has become an increasingly important substitute for actual hostilities between states. Its manifestations range from medieval sieges to modern day trade wars. Despite its long history, economic warfare remains an elusive term, foreign to international law. This book seeks to identify those portions of international law that are applicable to economic warfare. What is the status quo of regulation? Is there a jus ad bellum oeconomicum? A jus in bello oeconomico? After putting forward its own definition of economic warfare, the book reviews historical case studies – reflecting the three main branches of international economic law: trade, investment and currency – to identify pertinent legal boundaries. While the case studies reveal that numerous rules of international (economic) law regulate (specific measures of) economic warfare, it remains to be seen whether – analogously to the prohibition of the threat or use of force – these selective limitations have the potential to coalesce into a general prohibition of economic warfare in the future.

Author : Michael Taillard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319926933

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Economics and Modern Warfare by Michael Taillard Pdf

This book demonstrates how economic tools have been used throughout history to accomplish goals of military conflict, how they can be used more effectively than traditional means of warfare in the modern era, and how we can derive a better understanding of economic strategy applicable not just to the military but also to market competition. This new edition includes a thorough updating of chapters on advances in our understanding of economic warfare and more recent examples, such as ISIS’s reliance on obtaining control over oil production facilities, North Korea’s nuclear program, and China’s emphasis on scientific research and technological innovation. This edition also features an entirely new chapter on the commercialization of the conflict over the region of Kashmir.

Author : Neill Herbert Alford (Jr.),Naval War College (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Economic sanctions
ISBN : IND:30000112955343

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Modern Economic Warfare by Neill Herbert Alford (Jr.),Naval War College (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Ziad K. Abdelnour
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118197639

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Economic Warfare by Ziad K. Abdelnour Pdf

New insights for investors and business people looking to create wealth in the turbulent post-crisis world In a no holds barred expose of the 2008 financial meltdown from the inside, Ziad K. Abdelnour argues that the political and financial elites have done nothing to fix the structural problems and instead have worsened the situation. By creating more market bubbles, they are actually waging a war on the most productive members of society. For investors, business people, and entrepreneurs that need to navigate the troubled geopolitical waters of the post-crisis world, Abdelnour offers several solutions, including looking at the world anew and understanding that the federal government's primary objective is to promote the creation of an environment conducive to the creation of wealth not job creation, not bailouts, not subsidies, not expansion of the federal bureaucracy, and not providing lifetime support to those who choose not to take advantage of the innumerable opportunities that exist in this nation for them to create a better, more productive life for themselves. Written for investors that need to navigate the troubled geopolitical waters of the post-crisis world · Offers "out of the box" investment tactics and strategies to outsmart the system · Describes political and business solutions that anyone can engage in to restore freedom and prosperity The author is President and CEO of Blackhawk Partners, Inc., a private family office that has two major lines of business, private equity investments and advisory services, and physical commodities trading Compelling and persuasive, Economic Warfare reveals that wealth can be created in the new, post-crisis world, but investors need to understand that the rules of the game have changed.

Author : Antonín Basch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000459258

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The New Economic Warfare by Antonín Basch Pdf

This book, first published in 1942, examines the economic necessities, defensive and offensive, basic and strategic, involved in waging war. Written with total global war raging, it analyses the unprecedented demands placed on the economic system of a nation, and looks at the great shifts of productive effort and limits on consumption that were needed.

Author : Paul A. C. Koistinen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019354286

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Mobilizing for Modern War by Paul A. C. Koistinen Pdf

In this volume, Koistinen examines war planning and mobilizing in an era of rapid industrialization and reveals how economic mobilization for defense and war is shaped at the national level by the interaction of political, economic, and military institutions and by increasingly powerful and expensive weaponry.

Author : Nicholas A. Lambert
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674063068

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Planning Armageddon by Nicholas A. Lambert Pdf

Before the First World War, the British Admiralty conceived a plan to win rapid victory in the event of war with Germany-economic warfare on an unprecedented scale.This secret strategy called for the state to exploit Britain's effective monopolies in banking, communications, and shipping-the essential infrastructure underpinning global trade-to create a controlled implosion of the world economic system. In this revisionist account, Nicholas Lambert shows in lively detail how naval planners persuaded the British political leadership that systematic disruption of the global economy could bring about German military paralysis. After the outbreak of hostilities, the government shied away from full implementation upon realizing the extent of likely collateral damage-political, social, economic, and diplomatic-to both Britain and neutral countries. Woodrow Wilson in particular bristled at British restrictions on trade. A new, less disruptive approach to economic coercion was hastily improvised. The result was the blockade, ostensibly intended to starve Germany. It proved largely ineffective because of the massive political influence of economic interests on national ambitions and the continued interdependencies of all countries upon the smooth functioning of the global trading system. Lambert's interpretation entirely overturns the conventional understanding of British strategy in the early part of the First World War and underscores the importance in any analysis of strategic policy of understanding Clausewitz's "political conditions of war."

Author : Jari Eloranta,Eric Golson,Andrei Markevich,Nikolaus Wolf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811016059

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Economic History of Warfare and State Formation by Jari Eloranta,Eric Golson,Andrei Markevich,Nikolaus Wolf Pdf

This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this volume include the formation of European and non-European states in the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences, especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive and useful.

Author : Stephen Broadberry,Mark Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139448352

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The Economics of World War I by Stephen Broadberry,Mark Harrison Pdf

This unique volume offers a definitive new history of European economies at war from 1914 to 1918. It studies how European economies mobilised for war, how existing economic institutions stood up under the strain, how economic development influenced outcomes and how wartime experience influenced post-war economic growth. Leading international experts provide the first systematic comparison of economies at war between 1914 and 1918 based on the best available data for Britain, Germany, France, Russia, the USA, Italy, Turkey, Austria-Hungary and the Netherlands. The editors' overview draws some stark lessons about the role of economic development, the importance of markets and the damage done by nationalism and protectionism. A companion volume to the acclaimed The Economics of World War II, this is a major contribution to our understanding of total war.

Author : Patrick Karl O'Brien
Publisher : Library of Economic History
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004472738

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The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth by Patrick Karl O'Brien Pdf

"Historiographically, this book rests on the fact that European transitions to modern economic growth were obstructed and promoted by the Revolution in France and 15 years of geopolitical conflict sustained by Napoleon in order to establish French Hegemony over the states and economies of Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and overseas commerce. The chapters reveal that the nature and significance of connections between geopolitical and economic forces lend coherence to a collaborative endeavour utilising comparative methods to address a mega question: What might be plausibly concluded about the economic costs and the benefits of this protracted conjuncture of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare?"--

Author : Dale C. Copeland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691161594

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Economic Interdependence and War by Dale C. Copeland Pdf

Does growing economic interdependence among great powers increase or decrease the chance of conflict and war? Liberals argue that the benefits of trade give states an incentive to stay peaceful. Realists contend that trade compels states to struggle for vital raw materials and markets. Moving beyond the stale liberal-realist debate, Economic Interdependence and War lays out a dynamic theory of expectations that shows under what specific conditions interstate commerce will reduce or heighten the risk of conflict between nations. Taking a broad look at cases spanning two centuries, from the Napoleonic and Crimean wars to the more recent Cold War crises, Dale Copeland demonstrates that when leaders have positive expectations of the future trade environment, they want to remain at peace in order to secure the economic benefits that enhance long-term power. When, however, these expectations turn negative, leaders are likely to fear a loss of access to raw materials and markets, giving them more incentive to initiate crises to protect their commercial interests. The theory of trade expectations holds important implications for the understanding of Sino-American relations since 1985 and for the direction these relations will likely take over the next two decades. Economic Interdependence and War offers sweeping new insights into historical and contemporary global politics and the actual nature of democratic versus economic peace.

Author : Antonin Basch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258152800

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The New Economic Warfare by Antonin Basch Pdf

Author : M. Taillard
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349441406

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Economics and Modern Warfare by M. Taillard Pdf

By referring to a handful of battles throughout history, a new form of military strategy is derived through the manipulation of supplies, capital, and markets. This book combines economic theory with applied analyses of military successes and failures, explaining them simply for audiences of all levels of interest.

Author : Cynthia J. Arnson,I. William Zartman
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801882975

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Rethinking the Economics of War by Cynthia J. Arnson,I. William Zartman Pdf

This collection of essays questions the adequacy of explaining today's internal armed conflicts purely in terms of economic factors and re-establishes the importance of identity and grievances in creating and sustaining such wars. Countries studied include Lebanon, Angola, Colombia and Afghanistan.