Us Economic Statecraft For Survival, 1933-1991: Of Sanctions, Embargoes And Economic Warfare (routledge Advances In International Relations And Politics, 18)

How have US economic defence policies promoted the United States’ security since 1933? US Economic Statecraft for Survival 1933–1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America’s fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policy-makers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed vital threats to the survival of the USA. This study situates economic defence policy within the broad context of US foreign policy and explores its response to the totalitarianism of the 1930s, the Second World War and the complex strategic and political developments of the Cold War. Dobson charts an extraordinary change in US policy, from its defence of neutral rights to trade in wartime to its denial of trade to prospective enemies in peacetime. From his explanation of how it developed and evolved over the years there emerges a new perspective. This study emphasises the importance that economic instruments of statecraft have for symbolic, communication and political bargaining objectives. Economic instruments of statecraft are more important for what they say than what they do in an instrumental sense. Without being aware of these factors it is not possible to give a credible account of much of US economic statecraft in the post-war period. This book reassesses the nature and character of economic instruments of statecraft in the light of the detailed narrative of, and findings about, US policy from 1933 to 1991. Among other things, it raises difficulties about how to assess the effectiveness of such instruments of statecraft, once it is appreciated that assessment by purely objective economic criteria is inappropriate. It includes details of US economic actions against Japan, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Alan P.Dobson teaches US government and foreign policy and has published extensively on Anglo-American relations, US foreign policy and international aviation. He was a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in 1997, and since 1999 he has been Professor of Politics at the University of Dundee, from where he will launch The Journal of Transatlantic Studies. He is currently working on the single European aviation market and, in collaboration with Dr Steve Marsh, on Anglo-American summitry since 1941.

How have US economic defense policies promoted its security since 1933?

United States Economic Statecraft for Survival, 1933-1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America's fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policymakers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed vital threats to the survival of the US. This study situates economic defense policy within the broad context of US foreign policy and explores its response to the totalitarianism of the 1930s, the Second World War and the complex strategic and political developments of the Cold War.

Annotation How have US economic defence policies promoted its security since 1933? US Policies of Economic Warfare, 1933-1991 concentrates on an important and neglected facet of America's fight for survival in the latter half of the twentieth century. It explains how US policy-makers crafted and used instruments of economic statecraft against states that posed vital threats to the survival of the USA. This study situates economic defence policy within the broad context of US foreign policy and explores its response to the totalitarianism of the 1930s, the Second World War and the complex strategic and political developments of the Cold War