Caf Dowlah is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Miami Law School. Dr. Dowlah has published more than 30 scholarly papers and authored over a dozen books including Foundations of Modern Slavery (2021) and Cross-Border Labor Mobility (2020).

Klappentext

This book examines the legal statutes, executive orders, and judicial interpretations of US economic and financial sanctions. It clarifies the legality of sanctions, the extraterritorial reach of US laws and executive orders, and the effect of sanctions regimes on heavily targeted nations, revealing their impact on economies and populations.

Inhalt

List of appendixes; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Overview of economic and financial sanctions; 2. Economic and financial sanctions under International Law; 3. Legal frameworks of US economic and financial sanctions; 4. Enforcement infrastructures of US economic and financial sanctions; 5. US economic and financial sanctions against the Russian federation; 6. US economic and financial sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran; 7. US and multilateral sanctions regimes against the Republic of Iraq; 8. US economic and financial sanctions against the Republic of Cuba; 9. US economic and financial sanctions against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.