Tag: Sanctions

Sanctions with Chinese Characteristics Rhetoric and Restraint in China’s Diplomacy


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English | ISBN: 9463722351 | 2020 | 372 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The view that China has become increasingly assertive under President Xi Jinping is now a common trope in academic and media discourse. However, until the end of Xi Jinping’s first term in March 2018, China had been relatively restrained in its use of coercive economic measures. This is puzzling given the conventional belief among scholars and practitioners that sanctions are a middle ground between diplomatic and military/paramilitary action.

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Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D6P8V4W9 | 2024 | 7 hours and 37 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 218 MB
Author: Omar Barghouti
Narrator: Shawn K. Jain

THIRTY YEARS ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated South Africa as a pariah state and heralded the end of apartheid. Now, as awareness of the apartheid nature of the State of Israel continues to grow, Omar Barghouti, founding member of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, presents a renewed call to action. Aimed at forcing the State of Israel to uphold international law and universal human rights for the Palestinian people, here is a manifesto for change.

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International Sanctions Monetary and Financial Law Perspectives


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English | ISBN: 9004705694 | 2024 | 444 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Prepared under the auspices of the International Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association, this book is the first to focus on the financial and monetary law aspects of economic sanctions and examine their impact on central banks and payment systems.

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East Asia and Iran Sanctions Assistance, Abandonment, and Everything in Between


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English | ISBN: 303097426X | 2022 | 273 pages | EPUB, PDF | 464 KB + 3 MB
This book explores how international sanctions on Iran reshaped the contours of East Asia’s interactions with the Middle Eastern state. Almost all East Asian political entities, from the industrialized and developed nations of Japan and South Korea, to the communist and developing countries of China and North Korea, have become major international partners of Iran over the past several decades. In addition, East Asian states were, by and large, thought to be among leading foreign beneficiaries of Iran sanctions, and the overall impacts of sanctions in transforming both the scope and size of their rather multifaceted connections to the Middle Eastern country have been consequential.

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Sanctions What Everyone Needs to Know


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English | September 27, 2022 | ISBN: 0197530311 | 280 pages | MOBI | 0.86 Mb
A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another.

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