From Collective Punishment to Constraints on Authority : Rethinking the Impact of US Sanctions on Venezuela

著者名：Santos, Miguel Angel/Morales-Arilla, José/Cornielles, Zinedine Partipilo

Cambridge University Press（2026/06/11発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781009704304
• eISBN：9781009704298

Description

This Element critically examines the claim that United States economic sanctions on Venezuela constituted 'collective punishment' of the Venezuelan population, contributing significantly to the country's economic collapse and humanitarian crisis. Through comprehensive analysis of economic, developmental, and welfare indicators from 2013 to 2023, it demonstrates that the bulk of Venezuela's economic devastation - including 52 percent of GDP losses and 98 percent of import declines - largely occurred before financial sanctions were imposed in August 2017. Key welfare indicators such as infant mortality, undernourishment, and life expectancy had deteriorated substantially by 2017 and subsequently stabilized or improved following sanctions implementation, contradicting narratives that attribute Venezuela's collapse primarily to external economic pressure. The Element provides a timeline of Venezuelan economic and political events around sanctions and a critical review of the literature on their economic effects. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Timeline of economic events; 3. Critical literature review; 4. Case study 1: did the 2017 financial sanctions affect local economic outcomes in oil-producing areas?; 5. Case study 2: parsing concurrent treatments through the effects of the 2019 blackouts; 6. Case study 3: did sanctions affect the access to essential imports?; 7. Case study 4: sanctions and the end of foreign exchange controls; 8. Reframing the effects of economic sanctions on Venezuela: from collective punishment to constraints on authority; Appendix A; References.