American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific

ISBN-13: 9780415423502 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 182 str.

Brendan Taylor

Opis

Sanctions are a persistent – many would argue increasingly central – component of American efforts to shape foreign policy outcomes in the Asia-Pacific. The threatened use of sanctions in the context of two of the most pressing regional security issues currently on Washington’s radar – the ongoing North Korean nuclear crisis and the management of China’s emergence – clearly reaffirms this pattern. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of US sanctions policy in the Asia-Pacific. It includes a series of case studies from the post-Cold War period, examining US sanctions policy toward China, Japan, North Korea, India / Pakistan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Myanmar. In each case it addresses the reasons why sanctions were employed in the first place, what expectations were generated by the process, the precise nature of sanctions and how they operated in practice, before evaluating thie effectiveness. Finally, it identifies the common trends that emerge from this analysis, and draws out policy implications for US sanctions policy, in particular when and how the US can – and cannot – optimally use sanctions in an Asia-Pacific context.

Recenzje

"Brendan Taylor's American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific fills an important niche in the growing body of literature on the use of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool... American Sanctions in the Asia-Pacific is a worthy, well researched and thoughtful addition to the literature on that option in the foreign policy tool kit. It is an especially informative and valuable contribution to knowledge about the use of sanctions in the vital Asia-Pacific region. Brendan Taylor has provided an important book that should benefit scholars and policy makers alike." - Ted Galen Carpenter , Pacific Affairs: Volume 84, No. 1 – March 2011

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.  Acronyms and Abbreviations  1. Introduction  2. The Sanctions Debate  3. Sanctions and US Foreign Policy  4. The Bill Clinton Years  5. The George W. Bush Years  6. Conclusions and Recommendations.  Bibliography

O autorze

Brendan Taylor is a Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He is a specialist on Asian security, American foreign policy, economic statecraft and alliance politics.