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Patriots and Profiteers, Second edition

Economic Warfare, Embargo Busting, and State-Sponsored Crime
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2008

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Almost everyone assumes that by enforcing trade sanctions and arms embargoes, modern democracies make tin-pot dictators and rogue states mend their ways - that the application of economic pressure is easily the most effective way to curb aggression and encourage respect for human rights. R.T. Naylor demonstrates that economic warfare fails almost everywhere it is attempted, and that even when it succeeds, it has consequences that are not only unintended, but also frequently the precise opposite of their advertised result. For instance, embargoes drove Cuba into the awkward embrace of the Soviet Union. Everywhere that economic pressures have been used to either replace or augment military actions, the result has been confusion leading to criminality. From east to west, from before WWI to the recent confrontations with Pakistan, Bosnia, and Iraq, the legacy of economic warfare has been money laundering, gun-running, drug smuggling, and evasion of the rule of law. Naylor's approach is at once epic and anecdotal. His survey is populated by a bizarre underworld of warriors and smugglers, gangsters and spies, whose singular careers would be comic if they weren't absolutely real.

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Contributor: R.T. Naylor R.T. Naylor is professor of economics at McGill University. His books include Satanic Purses, Wages of Crime, Patriots and Profiteers, and Hot Money and the Politics of Debt.

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    Front Matter

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    Contents

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    Foreword

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    Prologue

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  • Method in the Mayhem
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    Mightier Than the Sword?

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    The Fortunes of War

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  • The Eagle and the Bear
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    Seeing Red

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    War Games

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    Grudge Match

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    Red Sunset?

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  • The Much-Promised Land
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    Out of Their League

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    From Cedars to Cinders

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    How the West Bank Was Won

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  • Black, White and Shades of Grey
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    Slick Business

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    Shooting Holes in the Arms Embargo

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    Friends and Neighbours

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    Cigar-Envy

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    Old Pros and New Contras

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    Short Circuits and Back Channels

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    Anns and the Ayatollah

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    Explosive Revelations

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    Leading Them into Temptation

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    The Second Front

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    Plowshares and Swords

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    Sand-Storms

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    Balkanizing the Balkans

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    Paragons Versus Pariahs?

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    Family Business

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    Epilogue

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    Aftermath, 2008: Mesopotamia and The New Mongols

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    Acknowledgements

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    Notes

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    Index

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