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

ISBN-13: 9783030974268 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Shirzad Azad

Opis

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. Despite its significance, academic studies about this topic have remained sparse and scattered. This book aims to partially fill that research lacuna by surveying all relevant information and data available in the archives of several languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Persian. While the book strives to cover the entire sanctions period, most of the analysis focuses on the past one and a half decades, when Iran came under the severest sets of international sanctions. It was during this particular time period that international quandary over the Iranian nuclear program led to a slew of far-reaching penalties and stringent restrictions levied against Iranians by the United Nations and the United States. These recent waves of international sanctions and limitations transformed many quintessential characteristics of East Asia’s interactions with Iran. Such sanctions-induced critical developments and changes, moreover, are bound to play an instrumental role in the direction and volume of exchanges between East Asian states and Iran in the coming years and decades.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: The sweep of Iran sanctions: Its essence and Eastern entanglement

Chapter 2: Sanctions reverberate: Stoking up political allegiance

Chapter 3: Targeting the lifeline: Oil and energy security in trouble 

Chapter 4: In other party’s terms: Frozen oil funds 

Chapter 5: Clogged up: The world of non-oil banking and credit matters 

Chapter 6: The minefield for moneymakers: Investment in a fluctuating land 

Chapter 7: Tipped to profit: The non-stop gravy train of trade 

Chapter 8: Not impervious to pressure: Teetering technology transfer

Chapter 9: Arms embargoes: Military and security adjustment 

Chapter 10: Cracks in the ivory tower: Academic and cultural repercussions 

Chapter 11: Looking East or looking elsewhere: Fault lines of international orientation

Chapter 12: The empire strikes back: Smuggling and bypassing sanctions 

Chapter 13: The West and the East on the lookout: Tracking a tangled web of sanctions-busting 

Chapter 14: Iran and East Asia in retrospective and prospective: The staying power of sanctions 

O autorze

Shirzad Azad is an independent scholar with a doctorate in International Relations. He has studied and taught in Japan, South Korea (ROK), and China for roughly a decade. This is his eighth scholarly book.

Blurb

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.

Despite its significance, academic studies about this topic have remained sparse and scattered. This book aims to partially fill that research lacuna by surveying all relevant information and data available in the archives of several languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Persian. While the book strives to cover the entire sanctions period, most of the analysis focuses on the past one and a half decades, when Iran came under the severest sets of international sanctions. It was during this particular time period that international quandary over the Iranian nuclear program led to a slew of far-reaching penalties and stringent restrictions levied against Iranians by the United Nations and the United States. These recent waves of international sanctions and limitations transformed many quintessential characteristics of East Asia’s interactions with Iran. Such sanctions-induced critical developments and changes, moreover, are bound to play an instrumental role in the direction and volume of exchanges between East Asian states and Iran in the coming years and decades.

Shirzad Azad is an independent scholar with a doctorate in International Relations. He has studied and taught in Japan, South Korea (ROK), and China for roughly a decade. This is his eighth scholarly book.