Trade Wars - Past and Present

• An interdisciplinary study of trade wars from the early modern period to the present day
• Provides a clear and accessible account of economic sanctions, trade wars, and economic warfare, investigating their history, ethics, economic driving forces, and legality
• Assesses the challenge that China poses to the Western model of democracy and free market economies
• Explores how technological and political change has transformed economic warfare and trade wars since 1989

Preface
Introduction: War, trade, and piracy
1:Economics, competition, trade war, and its modern causes
2:The terms economic sanction, trade war, and economic warfare
3:Trade wars and economic warfare in history
4:The ethics of economic warfare
5:Trade wars, economic sanctions and warfare, and the law
6:The economics of trade, effectiveness of economic sanctions, and winnability of trade wars
7:What characterizes economic warfare today? Developments since 1989
8:The Chinese challenge and the disunited West
9:What is to be done? Eight recommendations