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The Transnational Boycott As Economic Coercion In International Law: Policy, Place, And Practice, Christopher C. Joyner

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Despite the technological and political intricacies that earmark the current international economic system, the transnational boycott remains a prominent technique of international economic coercion.

The transnational boycott can be described as a coercive quasi-conspiratorial combination effort by one state to prevent another state from transacting commercial business. Threats or intimidation may be directed at the target state's customers to induce them to withhold or withdraw their patronage. While the ends and means of transnational boycotts may seem clear, their legal status appears to be open to conjecture. This situation can be attributed in no small part to the more sophisticated …

Books Received, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Books Received

NULLITY AND REVISION: THE REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS

By W. Michael Reisman

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971. Pp. vii, 900. $25.00.

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THE ENDLESS CRISIS

Edited by Frangois Duchne

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971. Pp. 310. $2.75.

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INTERNATIONAL LAW, NATIONAL TRIBUNALS AND THE RIGHTS OF ALIENS By Grant Dawson and Ivan L. Head

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1971. Pp. vii, 344. $11.75.

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THE LIMITED ELITE: POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT IN TWO INDIAN CITIES

By Donald B. Rosenthal

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Pp.vii, 360. $12.75.

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