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Economic Sanctions vs. Soft Power

Lessons from North Korea, Myanmar, and the Middle East

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  1. Nikolay Anguelov
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Nikolay Anguelov
    Pages 1-2

  3. Economic Sanctions: An Overview

    • Nikolay Anguelov
    Pages 3-20

  4. Myanmar—20 Years of Sanctions and Their Lasting Effect

    • Nikolay Anguelov, Kristin Bryant
    Pages 21-32

  5. Myanmar’s Sanction Legacy: The Results of Nonengagement

    • Nikolay Anguelov, Kristin Bryant
    Pages 33-57

  6. Absorb and Control: How North Korea Responds to Economic Sanctions

    • Bradley J. Hornback, Nikolay Anguelov
    Pages 59-70

  7. Alternatives to Sanctions

    • Tiffany Kaschel, Nikolay Anguelov
    Pages 71-110

  8. Sanctions or Soft Power: Implications for Competitiveness

    • Nikolay Anguelov
    Pages 111-132

  9. Engage or Not? Conclusions and Policy Implications

    • Nikolay Anguelov
    Pages 133-149

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 151-192
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The book examines the industrial growth of sanctioned nations in terms of their ability to foster trade partnerships with countries that choose to evade or not comply with sanctions. When those "black knight" nations find strong local market competitive advantages in the absence of firms from sender nations, incentives develop to support local political status quos. For those reasons, the political resilience of rogue and repressive regimes is analyzed in terms of their economic incentives to remain repressive. The resilience is based on the fact that the local politicians are also the local businessmen. Through the growth of international production networks, their business opportunities augment and the rents associated with that growth also increase. As business opportunities grow in the absence of competition, so does the amount of rent extraction and protection. Rent protecting leads to strengthening economic and political leadership, because the wealth is used for creating further rents by providing economic benefits to the regime supporters. Economic Sanctions vs. Soft Power shows how the system of self-enforcing economic rents builds political rents and lowers opportunities for the development of viable political oppositions.

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Bradley J. Hornback Tiffany Kaschel

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