Economic Sanctions for Foreign Policy Purposes: A Survey of the Twentieth Century

Hufbauer, Gary Clyde; Oegg, Barbara

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“… 3. Rather than use the comprehensive-targeted dichotomy, some scholars classify sanctions as limited, moderate, or extensive (Hufbauer, Elliott, Cyrus, & Winston, 1997). We use the term targeted sanctions to indicate not sanctions that are limited in scale but that are targeted at particular individuals or segments of society held to be responsible for the objectionable behavior (Hufbauer & Oegg, 2000).…”

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How Sanctions Affect Public Opinion in Target Countries: Experimental Evidence From Israel

Grossman

Manekin

Margalit

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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How do economic sanctions affect the political attitudes of individuals in targeted countries? Do they reduce or increase support for policy change? Are targeted, “smart” sanctions more effective in generating public support? Despite the importance of these questions for understanding the effectiveness of sanctions, they have received little systematic attention. We address them drawing on original data from Israel, where the threat of economic sanctions has sparked a contentious policy debate. We first examine the political effects of the European Union’s (EU) 2015 decision to label goods produced in the West Bank, and then expand our analysis by employing a survey experiment that allows us to test the differential impact of sanction type and sender identity. We find that the EU’s decision produced a backlash effect, increasing support for hardline policies and raising hostility toward Europe. Our findings further reveal that individuals are likely to support concessions only in the most extreme and unlikely of circumstances—a comprehensive boycott imposed by a sender perceived as a key strategic ally. These results offer theoretical and policy implications for the study of the effects of economic sanctions.

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How Sanctions Affect Public Opinion in Target Countries: Experimental Evidence From Israel

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Manekin

Margalit

2018

Comparative Political Studies

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“…Difficulty remains however on the ability to credit a given sanctions regime alone as the sole policy action that causes the targeted regime to change its behavior. 30 Gary Hufbauer and Barbara Oegg conclude in their study on economic sanctions, -Similarly, if foreign policy goals are only partially achieved through the imposition of sanctions, the sanctions may be considered a failure.‖ 31 When assessing the effectiveness of a sanctions regime the focus of the assessment should be whether or not the sanctions achieved the stated goal, and whether the sanction was effective in interrupting customary economic relations.…”

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The Economic Instrument of Power and Globalization

Feliciano¹

2011

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“…The international community apparently supports Security Council measures of the type against Afghanistan and the ones imposed on the diamond trade in Liberia. 45 These are likely to be less effective than comprehensive sanctions, 46 yet they meet a legal standard that balances the injury with the corresponding measure. 47 Is the Security Council bound to meet a standard of proportionality or any other standard in how it imposes sanctions?…”

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Debating the Law of Sanctions

O’Connell¹

2002

European Journal of International Law

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After years of United Nations-mandated sanctions against Iraq, human rights advocates began charging the UN Security Council with genocide in its use of 'sanctions of mass destruction'. Following the charges, a full debate began on the law of sanctions. The article recounts this debate, setting it in the context of two earlier rounds of discussion on the lawful use of sanctions. Those earlier debates resulted in general consensus that the Security Council was both free to use sanctions whenever it wanted and that sanctions should be comprehensive, airtight and subject to enforcement. Sanctions of this description were imposed on Haiti and Iraq, but were soon linked to widespread suffering. The debate among lawyers then turned to how sanctions could or should be limited, perhaps based on human rights law, humanitarian law, or the law governing unilateral sanctions. From this debate the principle of proportionality is emerging as a general limitation on coercion and force in international law. Nevertheless, proportionality cannot eliminate all unintended effects of sanctions. The next iteration of the sanctions debate may well return to when the Security Council may impose sanctions, proportional or not.

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Economic Sanctions for Foreign Policy Purposes: A Survey of the Twentieth Century

Cited by 55 publications

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How Sanctions Affect Public Opinion in Target Countries: Experimental Evidence From Israel

How Sanctions Affect Public Opinion in Target Countries: Experimental Evidence From Israel

The Economic Instrument of Power and Globalization

Debating the Law of Sanctions

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