La guerre économique

Jacques Fontanel () and Liliane Bensahel
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble
Liliane Bensahel: UGA UFR FEG - Université Grenoble Alpes - Faculté d'Économie de Grenoble - UGA [2016-2019] - Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019]

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Abstract: The economic war extends to the entire sphere of social and societal life. The economy is both a means and an end. The balance of terror has favoured the rise of indirect strategies, especially economic warfare. The pacifying paradigm of the economy in this case is a decoy. The theories of conflict highlight the historically close relationship between war and the economy, including mercantilist, Marxist, German historical school and the theories of international relations, especially the New International Economic Order. The military conception of the economic weapon leads to the control of commercial exchanges, to strategies of rupture, of encroachment, of impoverishment through preparation for war. The economy is also a diplomatic and strategic weapon and a powerful instrument of political action (effects of domination and violence). The economic weapon is used against an enemy, but sometimes against a friendly country that does not obey the dominant state. Sanctions, applied alone, often do not have the expected effects; they are sometimes of the protest type, the results are long and they weigh on all the actors, often in the long term.

Keywords: Economic war; Economic conflicts; Economic power; Trade; Public economic strategies; State; Mercantilism; Marxism; Guerre économique; conflits économiques; Puissance économique; Echanges commerciaux; Relations économiques internationales; Etat; Mercantilisme; Marxisme (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992-12
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Published in ARES, 1992, Economie de la défense, XIII (4), pp.9-50

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