Economic Warfare

Abstract

This entry discusses economic measures which aim at reducing or destroying the enemy's war-fighting capability during armed conflict ('traditional' economic warfare) as well as peacetime measures which closely resemble traditional economic warfare, such as embargoes and collective economic sanctions.

Keywords: economic warfare, blockade, visit and search, interdiction, navicert, contraband, prize law, trading with the enemy, enemy nationals, neutrals, neutrality, collective economic sanctions, countermeasures, UN, Chapter VII, Security Council, economic pressure