<p>Seminar leader: Karim Tahir and Raïs Neza Boneza<br><br>Sanctions as economic warfare – a success or a disaster?<br><br>Last winter, the book "Economic warfare" by Kåre Dahl Martinsen was published. A book about how weapons are exchanged with sanctions, subsidies, dumping and hostile acquisitions with the aim of weakening a country's economy so that it cannot offer political or military resistance. How this affects the balance of the world, who suffers from the severe sanctions imposed, really disappears<br>"undesirable" regimes and how it affects future trade and the economy when it is directed at great powers such as China and Russia.<br><br>Author and professor of European security policy at the Norwegian Armed Forces College Kåre D. Martinsen will speak in general about economic warfare. Lars Birkelund, author, writer and musician, will talk about the sanctions against Syria and the horrific im