Domestic and External Neomercantilism in the American Sanctions on Qaddafi's Libya | ||
| L' Egypte Contemporaine | ||
| Article 10, Volume 111, Issue 539 - Serial Number 2, April 2020, Pages 514-544 PDF (14.52 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/espesl.2020.213854 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ahmed Mahdy | ||
| lecture of British university in Egypt (BUE} | ||
| Abstract | ||
| In 2003, Libya suspended its weapons of mass destruction program after years of American and international sanctions. The literature concerning this issue has focused on the debate about which type of American policy tool has had the biggest role in Libya’s surrender, whether it was economic sanctions, military coercion, or diplomacy. However, the literature ignores explaining the American-Libyan relations policy in terms of International Political Economy (IPE) theory. Focusing on the IPE theory of neomercantilism, this paper argues that the definition of neomercantilism allows a variation between a minimalist definition and a maximalist definition for meomercantilism, as well aS a variation between what could be called domestic neomercantilism and external neomercantilism. Furthermore, the paper argues that this variation allows neomercantilism to offer a sound explanation of American policy towards Libya during the sanctions period. The assumptions of neomercantilism are tested against the events of the Washington- Tripoli relations during this period. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| النظرية التجارية الحديثة | العقوبات الاقتصادية | الولايات المتحدة | ليبيا | Neomercantilism | Sanctions | Libya | The United States; العقوبات الاقتصاية | الاقتصاد السياسي | أمريكا | ليبيا | ||
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