Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor is a 2007 economic history book by Edward S. Miller.

In Bankrupting the Enemy, Miller argues that economic sanctions held against Japan in response to the invasion of Manchuria and Second Sino-Japanese War, and the freezing of assets critical to the Japanese economy, forced them to declare war on the United States.

[4] Strategic Studies Quarterly stated that "books about finance, international trade, and economic analysis usually do not end up in the collections of many military professionals; Bankrupting the Enemy should", and gave praise to its research and "easy-to-read style".

[4] Enterprise & Society was similarly positive, calling it a "fascinating and exceptionally presented book", and said that "the content is detailed and factual, but Miller's cleanly written narrative retains its interest and pace throughout.

[5] They also lamented a lack of Japanese primary sources, as did The Journal of Economic History, who further criticised its dry tone, saying that it "reads as if a wartime bean counter were painstakingly describing the input-output matrix for the entire Japanese wartime economy", and went on to suggest that a cliometric analysis of the impacts of the economic sanctions would have improved the book.