First Recourse for Rebels
Tom Stevenson: Financial Weaponry, 24 March 2022
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
by Nicholas Mulder.
Yale, 434 pp., £25, March 2022,978 0 300 25936 0 Show More
by Nicholas Mulder.
Yale, 434 pp., £25, March 2022,
“... had shut down the banks and introduced regulations that conformed to American desires. But as Nicholas Mulder shows in The Economic Weapon, a much longer history lies behind the invention of modern sanctions. When war broke out in 1914, the British Empire had been the dominant naval power for almost a century. London’s capital markets financed 60 ... ”