Patriots and profiteers : economic warfare, embargo busting, and state-sponsored crime / R.T. Naylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naylor, R. T., 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic sanctions.

International economic relations.

Political corruption.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (523 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Montre al, Que bec : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor], c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Almost everyone assumes that by enforcing trade sanctions and arms embargoes, modern democracies make tin-pot dictators and rogue states mend their ways - that the application of economic pressure is easily the most effective way to curb aggression and encourage respect for human rights. R.T. Naylor demonstrates that economic warfare fails almost everywhere it is attempted, and that even when it succeeds, it has consequences that are not only unintended, but also frequently the precise opposite of their advertised result. For instance, embargoes drove Cuba into the awkward embrace of the Soviet Union. Everywhere that economic pressures have been used to either replace or augment military actions, the result has been confusion leading to criminality. From east to west, from before WWI to the recent confrontations with Pakistan, Bosnia, and Iraq, the legacy of economic warfare has been money laundering, gun-running, drug smuggling, and evasion of the rule of law. Naylor's approach is at once epic and anecdotal. His survey is populated by a bizarre underworld of warriors and smugglers, gangsters and spies, whose singular careers would be comic if they weren't absolutely real.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Foreword

Prologue

Method in the Mayhem

Mightier Than the Sword?

The Fortunes of War

The Eagle and the Bear

Seeing Red

War Games

Grudge Match

Red Sunset?

The Much-Promised Land

Out of Their League

From Cedars to Cinders

How the West Bank Was Won

Black, White and Shades of Grey

Slick Business

Shooting Holes in the Arms Embargo

Friends and Neighbours

Bellum Americanum

Cigar-Envy

Old Pros and New Contras

Short Circuits and Back Channels

Trouble on Oiled Waters

Anns and the Ayatollah

Explosive Revelations

Leading Them into Temptation

The Second Front

Hellfire and Saddamnation!

Plowshares and Swords

Sand-Storms

Yugoslavia, Humpty Dumpty and the Berlin Wall

Balkanizing the Balkans

Paragons Versus Pariahs?

Family Business

Epilogue

Aftermath, 2008: Mesopotamia and The New Mongols

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-7807-2

1-282-86544-7

9786612865442

0-7735-7489-1

OCLC:

647844309