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Publisher's summary
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.
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In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and materiel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrial order.
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Not For The Faint of Heart
- By David on 07-15-15
By: Adam Tooze
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The Long Game
- China's Grand Strategy to Displace American Order
- By: Rush Doshi
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 18 hrs and 24 mins
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In The Long Game, Rush Doshi draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, memoirs by party leaders, and a careful analysis of China's conduct to provide a history of China's grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.
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fresh perspective, grand strategic view
- By ndru1 on 02-05-22
By: Rush Doshi
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China's Leaders
- From Mao to Now
- By: David Shambaugh
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
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Since the founding of the People's Republic of China over seventy years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China's dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it.
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Very informative
- By JohnDoe on 04-03-23
By: David Shambaugh
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Spies, Lies, and Algorithms
- The History and Future of American Intelligence
- By: Amy B. Zegart
- Narrated by: Amy B. Zegart
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
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In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart separates fact from fiction as she offers an engaging and enlightening account of the past, present, and future of American espionage as it faces a revolution driven by digital technology. Drawing on decades of research and hundreds of interviews with intelligence officials, Zegart provides a history of US espionage, gives an overview of intelligence basics and life inside America's intelligence agencies, and explores the vexed issues of traitors, covert action, and congressional oversight.
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Superb and insightful!
- By Cameron on 02-01-22
By: Amy B. Zegart
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Stalin, Volume I
- Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
- By: Stephen Kotkin
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 38 hrs and 47 mins
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Volume One of Stalin begins and ends in January 1928 as Stalin boards a train bound for Siberia, about to embark upon the greatest gamble of his political life. He is now the ruler of the largest country in the world, but a poor and backward one, far behind the great capitalist countries in industrial and military power, encircled on all sides. In Siberia, Stalin conceives of the largest program of social reengineering ever attempted.
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Excellent Book But First Time Listener Beware
- By Nostromo on 03-23-15
By: Stephen Kotkin
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Not One Inch
- America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
- By: M.E. Sarotte
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Based on over a hundred interviews and on secret records of White House-Kremlin contacts, Not One Inch shows how the United States successfully overcame Russian resistance in the 1990s to expand NATO to more than 900 million people. But it also reveals how Washington's hardball tactics transformed the era between the Cold War and the present day, undermining what could have become a lasting partnership.
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America's NATO problem
- By Jeffrey D on 03-24-22
By: M.E. Sarotte
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Spin Dictators
- The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
- By: Sergei Guriev, Daniel Treisman
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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Spin Dictators traces how leaders such as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Peru's Alberto Fujimori pioneered less violent, more covert, and more effective methods of monopolizing power. They cultivated an image of competence, concealed censorship, and used democratic institutions to undermine democracy, all while increasing international engagement for financial and reputational benefits.
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Excellent analysis with mediocre presentation
- By David on 10-15-22
By: Sergei Guriev, and others
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The Great Delusion
- Liberal Dreams and International Realities
- By: John J. Mearsheimer
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended, is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad.
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Dense, fact filled, sober analysis and prescription
- By John Brynjolfsson on 12-15-18
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Chip War
- The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology
- By: Chris Miller
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer chips. Virtually everything—from missiles to microwaves—runs on chips, including cars, smartphones, the stock market, even the electric grid. Until recently, America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower, but America’s edge is in danger of slipping, undermined by players in Taiwan, Korea, and Europe taking over manufacturing.
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Great history, but could poor narration
- By Lily Wong on 10-26-22
By: Chris Miller
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The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
- By: John J. Mearsheimer
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
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A decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered these idyllic illusions, and John Mearsheimer's masterful new book explains why these harmonious visions remain utopian.
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Exceptional
- By Logical Paradox on 08-19-14
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To Rule the Waves
- How Control of the World's Oceans Determines the Fate of the Superpowers
- By: Bruce Jones
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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For centuries, oceans were the chessboard on which empires battled for supremacy. But in the nuclear age, air power and missile systems dominated our worries about security, and for the United States, the economy was largely driven by domestic production, with trucking and railways that crisscrossed the continent serving as the primary modes of commercial transit.
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Extraordinarily fascinating
- By Timothy O. Smith on 06-29-22
By: Bruce Jones
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- dixon
- 07-11-23
Talks too fast
Great book though I need to write fifteen words at least for the review. Fifteen
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- Mehdi Mollahasani
- 03-05-22
History of sanctions during the early 20th century
It’s beneficial to understand the origins of sanctions and how it was applied to Italy, Japan, and Germany by the US, UK, and France. The book will change your perspective about sanctions as a tool of warfare.
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- Soren
- 05-14-23
History Book
This is a history book. I was expecting some understanding of how sanctions are used and how they work. You will get none of that, this is only a historical perspective of when they were used.
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- Paul Reviewer
- 04-24-24
Interesting, but not quite what it says on the tin
Title and description should make clearer that 85% of this book is about the origin of sanctions and the process by which they became a core feature of modern geopolitics. It doesn't follow that thread through to present day in as much detail. If you're looking for a book to answer "do sanctions work?" in the modern era, it may not provide the level of detail you need to be convinced.
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- CMcCarty
- 04-18-22
Extraordinarily researched but dwells on WWs
The book is extremely detailed, which is both an asset and detraction. Extensive coverage of pre-WWI through WWII but then takes a zip through the last 70+ years of applications of economic sanctions with really unsatisfying lack of coverage. I would have preferred a lot less of cataloging the specific goods at which tonnage of deficit moving through which channel each year, and instead covering contemporary uses with more specificity than the massive sweeping generalizations given. It's more appropriate to consider this a history of economic sanctions from the late 1800s-1947.
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- Jeff Lacy
- 03-16-22
Fast reading
A timely subject, this a densely informative and illuminating commentary on the effective application of economic sanctions under the rules of the League of Nations during the interwar years, WWII, and post-WWII under The United Nations. Liam Gerrard reads fast. I read the book while simultaneously using the Audible. I had to stop, reverse, and begin again many, many times, as the information is dense, the writing style is a bit graduate level, and Gerard’s reading pace is rapid. I guess I could have slowed it down, and on rereading I will because this is a book meaningful enough for such study.
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- Justinas Rastenis
- 10-20-22
Interesting account on development of sanctions
Great historical overview on how the world started to use economic means in order to prevent future wars. The author gives detailed historical account and roots of what we call economic sanctions nowadays. Great book for contextual knowledge on the subject.
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- HonestOpin
- 03-23-22
Outstanding!
Outstanding! Highly relevant to current world events. Vividly places modern use of sanctions in their historical context. Professionally narrated.
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- nick
- 10-18-23
Decent
Was definitely tough to get through, didnt really keep my attention. it seemed like he was just reading a time line, versus wrapping past sanctions into moden decisions or outcomes.
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