of the British East India Company to the most recent U.S. war in Iraq. He argues that both Britain and the U.S. expanded …

alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are … modeled on devastating techniques of warfare. Tracing the use of economic sanctions from the blockades of World War I to the … war, and why their unintended consequences are so tremendous. …