International political economy
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International political economy Fanying Kong1 Received: 7 June 2020 / Accepted: 20 June 2020 © The Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IISS), Peking University 2020
1 Tourism, Sanctions and Boycotts, by Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall, Routledge, 2019, 166 pages, $48.00 (Hardback) It is well known that economic sanctions and boycotts cause economic and individual hardships in target countries. This short book focuses on the hardship of a specific subgroup: tourism systems. Visa restrictions and travel bans, as components of economic sanctions, block the normal contact of people and businesses from different countries, which puts sectors that rely on that contact at considerate risk. As the use of sanctions and boycotts increases, tourism and hospitality destinations, attractions, and businesses are becoming more profoundly affected, not only by tourists’ limited capacity to travel, but also by the long-lasting negative images created by the sanctions. Because they disrupt financial investment and supply chains in the tourism systems of target countries, sanctions are linked to the literature of tourism ethics, an emerging subfield on the consequences of tourists’ actions for local environments, people, and economies. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive account of sanctions and boycotts in tourism. Using historical and contemporary cases, it shows how tourism and tourism systems are affected by top-down sanctions that aim to change countries’ behavior and by bottom-up boycotts that aim to express grassroot animosity. With some examples, such as that of Iran, it shows how some target countries adopt adaptation strategies to respond to sanctions. These cases illustrate how resistive economies—a concept from sanctions literature—function in the tourism context. This book, in offering insight into another aspect of the economic and ethical complexities caused by sanctions, is helpful to policymakers and students interested in understanding political consumerism in tourism.
* Fanying Kong [email protected] 1
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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2 Coercive Sanctions and International Conflict: A Sociological Theory, by Mark Daniel Jaeger, Routledge, 2018, 254 pages, $124.00 (Hardback) While the most commonly asked question in sanctions literature is “Do sanctions work?”, this book asks a how question: “How do sanctions work in sociological terms?” More specifically, what are the social conditions within sanctions conflicts that are conducive to either cooperation or non-cooperation? The core argument is that the extent of cooperation in conflicts depends on the meaning sanctions acquire for opponents, and that sanctions strategies—i.e., positive or negative sanctions— are key factors in determining the information received by opponents as they conduct their conflict decision-making. For example, the book divides the post-1949 conflict between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) in
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