Economic Sanctions Vs Soft Power Lessons From North Korea Myanmar And The Middle East 1st Edition Nikolay Anguelov by Nikolay Anguelov 9781137523761, 9781349706556, 113752376X, 1349706558 instant download after payment.

The book examines the industrial growth of sanctioned nations in terms
of their ability to foster trade partnerships with countries that choose
to evade or not comply with sanctions. When those "black knight"
nations find strong local market competitive advantages in the absence
of firms from sender nations, incentives develop to support local
political status quos. For those reasons, the political resilience of
rogue and repressive regimes is analyzed in terms of their economic
incentives to remain repressive. The resilience is based on the fact
that the local politicians are also the local businessmen. Through the
growth of international production networks, their business
opportunities augment and the rents associated with that growth also
increase. As business opportunities grow in the absence of competition,
so does the amount of rent extraction and protection. Rent protecting
leads to strengthening economic and political leadership, because the
wealth is used for creating further rents by providing economic benefits
to the regime supporters. Economic Sanctions vs. Soft Power shows how
the system of self-enforcing economic rents builds political rents and
lowers opportunities for the development of viable political
oppositions.