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- Aberdeen, Lord, 63–64
- Afghanistan War (2001), 14, 162, 171
- Albright, Madeleine, 169, 172
- arms and ammunition
- Artois, First Battle of, 99
- Asquith, H. H., 98, 99
- asymmetric conflicts, in post-Cold War era, 164–65
- Attlee, Clement, 154
- attrition, war(s) of
- Austria
- Balkan War (1912–13), international trade during, 121–23
- Belgium
- Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von, 126
- blacklists, 23
- blockade(s)
- in absence of neutral rights, 29–30, 201n51
- almost total, military benefits and economic costs of, 32–33
- Britain’s go-to strategy of, 70, 91
- in Crimean War, 67, 70, 72, 74
- effective, requirements for, 24, 25, 26
- neutral rights and reduction of pressure of, 14
- during Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, 169
- in Persian Gulf War, 168
- in World War I, 93, 94, 97, 106, 114, 115, 116, 117
- Boer War (Second Boer War)
- Bosnian Independence, War of
- Britain
- in Boer War, 26, 32, 34
- general wartime commercial policy developed by, 16, 140, 141–44, 151, 161, 185
- military aims in Crimean War, 61, 62–65, 203n15
- military strategies in World War II, 153–55
- in Napoleonic Wars, 24
- and neutral rights
- in Persian Gulf War, 167
- and rule of 1756, 24, 30, 69
- textile industry in, dependence on German dyes, 134, 158, 161
- trade with Germany
- trade with Russia
- violation of maritime neutral rights in World War I, German expectations regarding, 114, 115, 117
- wartime commercial policy in Crimean War, 2, 42, 58–59, 60, 70–72, 83–84, 184
- wartime commercial policy in World War I, 2, 13–14, 15, 86, 184
- changes in war expectations and, 15, 16, 86–87, 97–103, 101t, 105–7, 113, 184, 211n62
- domestic politics and, 93, 111–12
- expected length of war and, 86, 90, 96, 97–101, 101t, 105, 108–9, 109t
- expected stakes of war and, 97, 101–3
- initial, 15, 87–97, 113
- product-level tailoring of, 86–87, 93, 95, 96, 97, 103–12, 113
- wartime commercial policy in World War II, 2, 14, 16, 140–41, 150–52, 156–60, 185
- amendments to, 141
- domestic politics and, 159–60
- expected length of war and, 140, 145, 149, 150, 152, 153, 160
- expected stakes of war and, 140, 149–50, 151, 152, 155, 160, 161
- preparation for, 141–44
- product-level tailoring of, 141, 145–51, 157–58, 160–61
- World War I experience and, 140, 142, 143, 161, 185, 224n103
- Britain, Battle of, 155, 156
- Bush, George H. W., 167, 168
- Cardwell, Edward, 73, 74–75
- certificates of origin, 22
- Chalmers, Robert, 94
- Champagne, First Battle of, 99
- China
- Churchill, Winston, 153, 154, 155
- civil wars
- applicability of wartime trade theory to, 6
- interventions in, expected length of, 165
- See also specific civil wars
- Cold War
- colonial wars, expected length of, 49
- contraband goods, 22
- contraband trade, 20
- conversion time (of products into military capabilities), 36, 39, 40–43
- applicability to services, 188
- in assessments of security externalities of trade, 47, 58
- and British commercial policy in World War I, 109–11, 110f, 111f, 113
- and British commercial policy in World War II, 149, 150, 160
- in British general wartime commercial policy, 143
- and decision-making regarding wartime trade, 2–3, 3t, 15, 37, 37f, 45, 46–47, 46f, 183–84, 188
- expected length of war and, 15, 36–37, 37f, 48, 54
- and German commercial policy in World War I, 138
- globalization and decrease in, 186, 187
- product ranking based on, 42–43, 54–55, 55f, 87
- in relative gains calculations during war, 194
- and Russian commercial policy in Crimean War, 81–82
- Crimean War
- and fundamental problem of trade with the enemy, 60–61, 184
- immediate cause of, 61–62
- initial wartime commercial policies during, 65–68, 85–86, 184
- lessons learned from, and World War I policies, 90
- and neutral rights, development of, 13, 15, 25, 31, 60, 69, 184
- trade between belligerents in, 58–59, 70–72, 81, 83–84, 84t
- war expectations regarding, 61–65, 184
- See also under Britain; France; Russia
- Dardanelles campaign, 99, 109
- Dayton Peace Accords, 172
- Declaration of London (1909), 27, 117, 138
- Declaration of Paris (1856), 7, 13, 25–26, 33, 34
- Declaration on the Rights of Neutrals, 15, 25, 31, 60, 69, 73
- decoupling policies, 11, 195
- Delbrük, Clemens von, 120, 131, 136, 137
- Denmark
- Desart, Lord, 93
- direct wartime trade, 20–22
- during Crimean War, 83–84
- during Iraq War (2003), 170
- during Kosovo bombing campaign, 172–73, 172t
- during Libya intervention (2011), 175, 175t
- during Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, 168, 169
- reasons to restrict, 20–21
- during Russia-Ukraine War, 2, 177
- during World War I, 115, 131, 135–36, 138
- during World War II, 1, 141, 157–58
- domestic politics
- domestic substitution, as indirect trade with the enemy, 21, 22
- dyestuffs
- economic imperative
- economic interdependence
- economic power, and military power, trade-offs between, 10–11
- energy resources
- Esher, Lord, 93, 94, 96
- European Union (EU)
- expectations about coming war, and wartime commercial policy, 3, 14, 15, 36–37, 52–56, 53f, 55f, 87, 183–84, 196
- changes in, 14, 15, 16, 55–56
- See also expected length of war; expected stakes of war
- expected length of war, 50
- and British commercial policy in Crimean War, 184
- and British commercial policy in World War I, 86, 90, 96, 97–101, 101t, 105, 108–9, 109t, 184, 211n62
- and British commercial policy in World War II, 140, 145, 149, 150, 152, 153, 160
- and British military strategies in Crimean War, 63–65
- and British military strategies in World War II, 153–54
- changes during conflict, 49–50
- changes in global economy and, 186
- vs. conversion time of products, 15, 36–37, 37f, 48, 54
- of Crimean War, 61, 63, 64–65, 68
- and French military strategies in Crimean War, 64–65
- and German commercial policy in World War I, 114–15, 119–20, 132, 134, 136, 184–85
- and German military strategies in World War I, 125–28, 129t
- and Russian commercial policy in Crimean War, 184
- and Russian military strategies in Crimean War, 61–63
- state’s position on, sources of information on, 50
- in traditional wars vs. bombing campaigns, 165
- and US commercial policy in post-Cold War conflicts, 171, 172–73
- and US commercial policy in Russia-Ukraine War, 177, 178–79
- and wartime commercial policy, 3, 36–37, 37f, 48–50, 52, 53f, 55f
- expected stakes of war, 50
- and British commercial policy in World War I, 97, 101–3, 211n62
- and British commercial policy in World War II, 140, 149–50, 151, 152, 155, 160, 161
- and British general wartime commercial policy, 143
- and British military strategies in World War II, 154–55
- changes during conflict, 51
- factors determining, 49
- and German military strategies in World War I, 129–31
- vs. revenue loss, in wartime commercial decisions, 15, 37, 37f, 45, 48, 54
- state’s position on, sources of information on, 51–52
- and US commercial policy during Russia-Ukraine War, 179
- and wartime commercial policy, 3, 37, 37f, 48, 50–52, 53f, 55f
- Falkenhayn, Erich von, 126–27
- financial sanctions
- First Gulf War. See Persian Gulf War
- First League of Armed Neutrality, 25
- food products
- British commercial policy regarding
- German commercial policy regarding
- Russian commercial policy regarding
- US commercial policy regarding
- food shortages, in Germany during World War I, 119, 129–30
- France
- in Algerian War of Independence, 52
- in Crimean War, 25, 61, 62–65
- and fundamental problem of trade with the enemy, solution to, 61, 73, 78, 85, 184
- in Napoleonic Wars, 24
- and neutral rights, development of, 13, 25, 60, 69, 205n67
- textile industry in, dependence on German dyes, 134
- trade with Germany
- trade with Russia
- wartime commercial policy prior to neutral rights, 24, 69
- in World War I, 99, 100, 101, 117
- in World War II, 153, 155
- Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), 116
- free goods, Declaration of London on, 27
- fundamental problem of trade with the enemy, 2
- geopolitical rivalry, trade under conditions of, 190–94
- Georgia
- Germany
- globalization, and wartime trade, increased likelihood of, 12, 186–87
- global wars, and neutral rights, 14, 34–35
- Grave, siege of, 40
- Gulf War. See Persian Gulf War
- Gumbinnen, Battle of, 98, 129
- India
- indirect wartime trade, 7, 20–22
- Inkerman, Battle of, 63, 65
- innocent goods, 32
- intermediate products, MNCs and trade in, 187
- Iran, during Persian Gulf War, 168
- Iraq
- UN comprehensive trade embargo on, 170
- See also Iraq War; Persian Gulf War
- Iraq War (2003), 162
- Islamic State, 162, 171
- Italy
- maritime neutral rights. See neutral rights
- Marne, First Battle of, 98, 126, 132
- military power
- and economic power, trade-offs between, 10–11
- See also security imperative
- Milley, Mark, 181
- Milosevic, Slobodan, 172–73
- minimal manufacturing
- Moltke the Younger, Helmuth von, 98, 117, 125, 126, 136
- Mulhouse, Battle of, 129
- multinational corporations (MNCs), rise of, implications for wartime trade, 186–87
- Napoleonic Wars, 24, 25
- Napoleon III (President of France), 64
- Netherlands
- neutral rights, 23–24
- adoption of, and wartime commercial policies, 13, 14–15, 29–33, 60, 73, 116, 183
- vs. belligerent rights, contestation over, 26–27, 33
- British adherence to, general wartime commercial policy and, 143, 161, 221n23
- British violation of, German expectations in World War I, 114, 115, 117, 131, 138
- as condition of possibility for wartime trade, 7–8, 10, 18, 35
- development of, 13, 15, 24–27, 28, 34, 60, 69
- and fundamental problem of trade with the enemy, 14, 18, 19, 23, 31–32, 35, 60, 73, 84, 183
- German expectations regarding, and commercial policy in World War I, 114–21, 138
- German violation of, British expectations in World War II, 156, 161
- global wars and, 14, 34–35
- international organizations’ efforts to remove, 27–28, 35
- persistence of, explanations for, 33–35
- principles of, 24, 25, 72
- prohibition of trade in absence of, 13, 18–19, 24, 29, 183
- and reduced benefits of severing trade, 30–32, 170, 183
- US Civil War as first test of, 26–27, 33
- wartime commercial policies before introduction of, 18–19, 29–30, 65–68, 71
- in World War I, 27–28, 34–35, 90–91, 92, 106
- in World War II, 140, 152, 156
- world without, UN comprehensive trade embargoes simulating, 7, 14, 16, 162, 166–70, 181–82
- neutral states
- Nicholas I (Tsar of Russia), 62, 63
- Nicholls, J. W., 150
- Nivelle offensive, 100
- North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), renegotiation of, 190
- Norway
- Palmerston, Lord, 64, 203n15
- Paskevich, Ivan, 62, 63
- peace, commercial, 196
- See also economic interdependence
- peacetime commercial policy
- Persian Gulf War, 162
- poison gas, use in World War I, 108
- and changes in British wartime commercial policy, 184
- privateering, 24–25, 30
- product(s)
- contraband, 22, 27
- conversion into military capabilities, variation in time required for, 36, 39, 40–43
- ranking based on conversion time, 42–43, 54–55, 55f, 87
- ranking based on revenue loss, 43–45, 55, 55f, 87
- revenue contribution of, variation in, 36, 40, 43–44
- security externalities of wartime trade in, variation in, 36, 38, 39–45
- See also conversion time; revenue loss
- product level, wartime commercial policy set at, 2–3, 15, 20, 59
- prohibition on trade (severing trade in war)
- in absence of neutral rights, 13, 18–19, 24, 29–30, 60, 85–86, 183
- after adoption of neutral rights, reduced benefits of, 31, 170
- in Crimean War, 65–68, 71, 85–86, 184
- enforcing, 22–23
- as long-term policy tool, 13, 56
- qualifications within, 7
- security imperative and, 4
- UN comprehensive trade embargoes and, 16, 162–63, 166, 167–68, 169, 170
- US policies in post-Cold War conflicts and, 162–63
- in World War I, 140
- in World War II, British policies of, 150–51, 152, 156–57
- See also blockade(s)
- proxy warfare
- Prussia
- Putin, Vladimir, 176
- Race to the Sea, 98, 109, 126, 132
- rationing schemes. See quotas
- raw materials
- British wartime policy regarding
- conversion time into military capabilities, 40–41, 178
- German stockpiles of, prior to World War I, 119–20
- German wartime policy regarding, during World War I, 124
- revenue loss from severed trade in, 44
- US prohibition on exports to Russia, during Russia-Ukraine war, 178, 181
- relative gains
- revenue, variation in products’ contribution to, 36, 40, 43–44
- revenue loss
- in assessments of security externalities of trade, 48, 58
- and British commercial policy in World War I, 101, 106–7
- and British commercial policy in World War II, 158, 159
- and decision-making regarding wartime trade, 3, 3t, 15, 37, 37f, 45, 46–47, 46f, 47, 188
- expected stakes of war and, 15, 37, 37f, 45, 48, 54
- and future security, 38, 45–46, 48, 50–51
- and German commercial policy in World War I, 133, 134, 136
- product ranking based on, 43–45, 55, 55f, 87
- and Russian commercial policy in Crimean War, 82
- Romania
- rule of 1756, 24, 30, 69
- Russia
- in Crimean War, 61–62
- EU/US sanctions on, during Russia-Ukraine War, 11, 176, 177, 178–79, 180, 181, 191, 192
- and neutral rights, development of, 13, 25, 60, 72
- and parallel SWIFT system, 190
- trade with Britain
- trade with France
- trade with Germany
- trade with US, during Russia-Ukraine War, 11, 176–80, 191, 192
- and UN Security Council, breakdown of consensus at, 172
- in World War I, 98, 100, 117, 127
- See also Soviet Union
- Russia-Ukraine War, 175–81
- Russo-Japanese War
- Saddam Hussein, 167ww
- Samsonov, Alexander, 126
- sanctions
- Saudi Arabia, during Persian Gulf War, 168
- Schlieffen Plan, 98, 125–26
- Second Boer War. See Boer War
- Second League of Armed Neutrality, 25
- security competition, trade under conditions of, 190–94
- security externalities of trade, 38–39, 202n5
- security imperative
- semiconductors, US-China trade in, 193, 196
- Serbia
- service sector, applicability of wartime trade theory to, 187–88
- Sevastopol, siege of, 61, 64–65, 74, 80
- severing trade in war. See prohibition on trade
- Shalikashvili, John, 169
- Sinope, Battle of, 62, 64
- Smith, Llewellyn, 91–92
- Somme, Battle of, 99
- South African War, 143
- Soviet Union
- Spain
- stalemate, in World War I, 98–99, 100, 126–27
- stockpiles
- Stoltenberg, Jens, 181
- submarine warfare, unrestricted, introduction in World War I, 127, 128
- Sweden
- SWIFT system
- Syria, US intervention in (2014), 162, 171
- Taliban, prohibition on trade with, 162, 171
- tank(s), introduction in World War I, 100
- Tannenberg, Battle of, 98, 126, 129
- tariffs
- changes in schedule of, as solution to fundamental problem of trade with the enemy, 61, 78, 207n132
- French wartime commercial policy based on, in Crimean War, 78–80, 79t, 85, 184
- German policies on, prior to World War I, 121
- and German wartime commercial policy in World War I, 124, 132
- on products of enemy origin, 22
- Russian wartime commercial policy based on, in Crimean War, 82–83
- taxation
- technologies, new
- temporal dynamics
- textile industry
- trade with the enemy. See wartime trade
- Treaty of Washington (1871), 27
- Troubridge, Ernest, 94
- Trump, Donald, 190
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- German occupation of, during World War I, 100
- trade with Russia, during wartime, 2
- See also Russia-Ukraine War
- unipolarity, post-Cold War, 164
- and neutral rights, 28
- United Nations
- arms embargo on Libya, 174
- arms embargo on Serbia, 172
- breakdown of consensus at, and US wartime commercial policy, 170–71, 172
- and comprehensive trade embargoes, 16, 162–63, 166, 167–68, 169, 170, 181–82, 185
- efforts to remove neutrality, 28, 35, 166
- and neutral rights in contemporary conflicts, 7, 14, 16, 162, 166–70
- United States
- and China
- and neutral rights, development of, 25, 26
- post-Cold War military engagements of, 162, 164–66
- trade with Germany
- unipolar status after end of Cold War, 164
- wartime commercial policy in post-Cold War conflicts, 14, 16–17, 162–63, 166, 181–82, 185
- after breakdown of consensus at UN, 170–71, 172
- data on, 163–64, 165
- Haiti operation (1994–95), 168–69
- Iraq War (2003), 170
- Kosovo bombing campaign, 14, 16–17, 163, 166, 171, 172–74, 173t
- Libya intervention (2011), 171, 174–75, 175t
- Persian Gulf War, 167–68
- Russia-Ukraine War, 11, 176–81, 191, 192
- Syria intervention (2014), 14, 171
- UN comprehensive trade embargoes and, 162–63, 166, 167–68, 169
- during World War I
- during World War II
- UN Oil-for-Food program, 170
- US Civil War, as first test of neutral rights, 26–27, 33
- wartime commercial policy
- after adoption of neutral rights, 13, 14–15, 29–33, 60, 73, 116, 183
- balancing of economic and security concerns in, 8, 18, 36, 45, 183
- changes in war expectations and, 14, 15, 16, 55–56
- definition of, 4, 20
- domestic politics and, 9–10
- enforcing, 22–23
- expected length of war and, 3, 36–37, 37f, 48–50, 52, 53f, 55f
- expected stakes of war and, 3, 37, 37f, 48, 50–52, 53f, 55f
- before introduction of neutral rights, 18–19, 29–30, 84–85
- vs. peacetime commercial policy, 4, 8, 9, 188–90, 193
- restrictive vs. lax, 4, 53f
- set at product level, 2–3, 15, 20, 59
- See also under specific countries
- wartime trade (trade with the enemy), 1–2
- benefits of, 47
- bilateral level of, wartime trade theory on, 4–5, 57–59
- during Crimean War, 58–59, 70–72, 81, 83–84, 84t
- definition of, 19–20
- direct vs. indirect, 7, 20–22
- globalization and increased likelihood of, 12, 186–87
- during Iraq War (2003), 170
- during Kosovo bombing campaign, 173–74, 173t
- lack of clear understanding of, 6–7
- legal vs. contraband, 20
- neutral rights as condition of possibility for, 7–8, 10, 18, 35
- during Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, 168, 169
- during Russia-Ukraine War, 2, 11, 176–80
- scholarship on, 6
- trade-offs between economic and military power in, 10–11
- during US intervention in Libya (2011), 174–75, 175t
- during US intervention in Syria (2014), 171
- during World War I, 1, 55, 91, 104, 106, 113, 115, 131, 132, 133–36, 138–39, 184
- during World War II, 1, 20, 141, 157–59
- See also direct wartime trade; fundamental problem of trade with the enemy; indirect wartime trade; prohibition on trade
- wartime trade theory, 10, 15, 36–37, 37f, 53–56, 55f, 59, 87
- applicability to service sector, 187–88
- asymmetric conflicts and, 165–66
- on bilateral level of trade between enemies, 4–5, 57–59
- case studies supporting, 13–14, 15, 184–85
- civil wars and, 6
- contributions of, 11–13, 194–97
- vs. economic interdependence theory, 11–12, 196–97, 203n40
- endogeneity concerns regarding, response to, 56–57
- geopolitical rivalry and, 190–94
- proxy warfare and, 175, 182
- scope conditions of, 5–6
- Wilson, James, 74
- Wilson, Woodrow, 100
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- World War I
- World War II