Since World War II the United States has established and maintained political, economic, cultural, and military hegemony at the global level (Davis and Ness 2022). Samir Amin (2004) argues that the ongoing project to dominate the world through military force was developed originally from European liberalism, but the United States has taken a more dangerous approach, more vicious than earlier forms of imperialism, plundering natural resources and destroying the lives of the poor.
Since the 1980s imperialist countries (the United States and Europe) have shifted from military intervention to relying on economic sanctions, thus enforcing financial penalties on many countries of the global South under the pretext that they have violated human rights and/or international law. They have imposed sanctions against more than twenty-five countries, destroying thousands of innocent lives and inflicting enormous damage on civil societies (Davis and Ness 2022). It is also worth noting...
