Lee Jones is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London and Research Associate at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. His research focuses on state-society relations, security and governance in developing countries, particularly Southeast Asia. Lee is author of ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and, with Shahar Hameiri, Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has frequently advised governments and non-governmental organisations in Europe and Asia and appears regularly in national and international media. Lee blogs at TheDisorderofThings.com and tweets @DrLeeJones.

• Introduction ; 1. A Political Theory of Economic Statecraft ; 2. South Africa: Sanctioning Apartheid ; 3. Myanmar: Sanctioning Military Rule ; 4. Iraq: Sanctioning Dictatorship ; Conclusion

Societies under siege is a sophisticated account of how, and why, economic sanctions applied in recent years to South Africa, Iraq and Myanmar affected the politics of those three countries without achieving the goals that the Western politicians which dictated them intended.

Lee Jones is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London and Research Associate at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. His research focuses on state-society relations, security and governance in developing countries, particularly Southeast Asia. Lee is author of ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and, with Shahar Hameiri, Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has frequently advised governments and non-governmental organisations in Europe and Asia and appears regularly in national and international media. Lee blogs at TheDisorderofThings.com and tweets @DrLeeJones.

• Introduction ; 1. A Political Theory of Economic Statecraft ; 2. South Africa: Sanctioning Apartheid ; 3. Myanmar: Sanctioning Military Rule ; 4. Iraq: Sanctioning Dictatorship ; Conclusion

Societies under siege is a sophisticated account of how, and why, economic sanctions applied in recent years to South Africa, Iraq and Myanmar affected the politics of those three countries without achieving the goals that the Western politicians which dictated them intended.

Lee Jones is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London and Research Associate at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. His research focuses on state-society relations, security and governance in developing countries, particularly Southeast Asia. Lee is author of ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and, with Shahar Hameiri, Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has frequently advised governments and non-governmental organisations in Europe and Asia and appears regularly in national and international media. Lee blogs at TheDisorderofThings.com and tweets @DrLeeJones.

• Introduction ; 1. A Political Theory of Economic Statecraft ; 2. South Africa: Sanctioning Apartheid ; 3. Myanmar: Sanctioning Military Rule ; 4. Iraq: Sanctioning Dictatorship ; Conclusion

Societies under siege is a sophisticated account of how, and why, economic sanctions applied in recent years to South Africa, Iraq and Myanmar affected the politics of those three countries without achieving the goals that the Western politicians which dictated them intended.