Expropriations of Foreign Property and Political Alliances: A Business Historical Approach
Description
This paper proposes a classification of government expropriations of foreign property based on the types of alliances sought out by governments in their quest for support for those actions. Based on a review of historical literature and social science studies of expro- priations in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America in the twentieth century, we define three types of alliances: with organized labor,