The Political Economy of Sanctions: Resilience and Transformation in Russia and Iran

by Ksenia Kirkham

Overview

This book presents a comparative analysis of Russia and Iran under sanctions. Whilst the growing literature on sanctions has focused primarily on their effectiveness, much less attention has been paid to the ways in which sanctions have transformed target societies and states. Despite, or indeed because of, the relentless enactment of sanctions, Russia and Iran have become increasingly Hobbesian in their governance – more self-reliant, less democratic, and more aggressive towards the West. The author explores these developments through a novel Welfare State Regime framework (WSR) that combines welfare state functionality with institutional, economic, and cultural structural dimensions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031040573
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	08/25/2022
Series:	International Political Economy Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	458
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Ksenia Kirkham is Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, UK.

Table of Contents

1. The Welfare State Regime as a Comparative Theoretical Account: From Welfare State to Gramsci.- 2. The Welfare State Regime as an Analytical Tool: From Gramsci to Welfare.- 3. Russia.- 4. Iran.- 5. Russia.- 6. Iran.- 7. Russia.- 8. Iran.- 9. Counter-Hegemonic Trends.

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From the Publisher

“Russia and Iran are rarely compared by scholars of comparative political economy to any systematic degree. Bringing together a wide array of theoretical tools, Kirkham proposes a new approach to examining politics and social policy in these two states.” (—Kevan Harris, author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (2017))

“Ksenia Kirkham has done scholars of IPE a rare favour. First, this book propels debates about Gramscian and Amsterdam School scholarship forward through careful historical and comparative analysis of Russia and Iran. Second, it also reveals the connections between institutional arrangements, welfare states and the (re)production of capitalist social relations through sanctions regimes. Kirkham’s book is a crucial addition to critical IPE canon.” (—Stuart Shields, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK)

“This path breaking book makes aninvaluable contribution to our understanding of sanctions in IPE. Developing a novel welfare state regime approach, Ksenia Kirkham shows that sanctions on Iran and Russia have resulted in significant functional and structural commonalities. Whilst the sanctions have had only limited effectiveness on these states’ foreign policies, they have led to the transformation and consolidation of self-reliant and centralized Hobbesian-type regimes.” (—Alan W. Cafruny, Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, Hamilton College, USA)