Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad

Economic sanctions have been imposed on dozens of countries and thousands of individuals, triggering humanitarian crises and creating economic chaos, often with little accountability. Sanctions can cause particular harm to vulnerable populations, including women, children, migrants, and the poor. Economic Sanctions from Havana to Baghdad: Legitimacy, Accountability, and Humanitarian Consequences addresses a range of issues in the design and implementation of the economic sanctions regimes that emerged in the post-Cold War era. Drawing on cases from Syria, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, and elsewhere, the chapters in this volume explore issues such as the gendered effects of sanctions; how migrants are affected; risk assessment practices by international businesses; how sanctions affect private actors such as banks; and the effects of sanctions on economic development, infrastructure, and access to health care. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Author Biography

Joy Gordon holds the Ignacio Ellacuría, S. J. Chair in Social Ethics in the Philosophy Department at Loyola University-Chicago. She has published extensively in the field of economic sanctions, including Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions (Harvard University Press). She has published numerous articles in the fields of philosophy, law, and international relations in the Yale Journal of International Law, Le Monde Diplomatique, Ethics and International Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard International Law Journal, Global Governance, and elsewhere.