East Asia and Iran Sanctions: Assistance, Abandonment, and Everything in Between

Iranian sanctions have significantly impacted East Asia's interactions with the Middle Eastern state, with almost all East Asian political entities becoming major international partners of Iran. This book explores the effects of sanctions on these connections, covering the entire sanctions period but focusing on the past one and a half decades when international quandary over the Iranian nuclear program led to severe penalties and restrictions. It aims to partially fill the research lacuna by surveying all relevant information and data available in the archives of several languages.

Format: Hardback
Length: 262 pages
Publication date: 18 May 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Iran's international sanctions have significantly impacted East Asia's interactions with the Middle Eastern state. Almost all East Asian political entities, from Japan and South Korea to China and North Korea, have become major international partners of Iran over the past several decades. East Asian states have also been among the leading foreign beneficiaries of Iran sanctions, and the overall impacts of sanctions in transforming both the scope and size of their connections to the Middle Eastern country have been consequential. However, academic studies about this topic have remained sparse and scattered, and this book aims to partially fill that research lacuna by surveying all relevant information and data available in the archives of several languages, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and Persian. While the book strives to cover the entire sanctions period, most of the analysis focuses on the past one and a half decades, when Iran came under the severest sets of international sanctions. These recent waves of international sanctions and limitations transformed many quintessential characteristics of East Asia's interactions with Iran. Such sanctions-induced critical developments and changes are bound to play an instrumental role in the direction and volume of exchanges between East Asian states and Iran in the coming years and decades.

Weight: 488g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030974268
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022