Another day, another #BLOCKADE vacancy, this time for a fully funded 4-year PhD at Amsterdam on 'benign blockades'. This PhD project will focus on the interwar period.

Following the experiences of economic warfare during the First World War, blockades and sanctions became tools wielded by the League of Nations and by others on behalf of an ‘international community’ to combat infractions of international law.

Examples include sanctions levied against Japan following its invasion of Manchuria and against Italy following that of Ethiopia, as well as the multinational non-intervention committee set up to isolate both camps in the Spanish Civil War.

Your PhD will focus on the interaction between the international level (and the development of thinking on the ethics and efficacy of using sanctions and blockades in the interest, however defined, of political aims) and one or more concrete case studies of interwar blockades.

You will also analyse what lessons contemporaries drew from these sanctions and blockades, both at state and international levels.

See the full vacancy text here: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...