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The Sanctions Decade, April 2000
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THE SANCTIONS DECADE
By: David Cortright

Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s

Lynne Rienner Publishers
April 2000
On Sale: April 1, 2000
274 pages
ISBN: 1555878679
EAN: 9781555878672
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political

Since the end of the Cold War, economic sanctions have been a frequent instrument of United Nations authority, imposed by the Security Council against nearly a dozen targets. Some efforts appear to have been successful, others are more doubtful—all, though, have been controversial. This book, based on more than two hundred interviews with officials from the UN, the sanctioned countries, and with other involved actors provides the first comprehensive assessment of the effectiveness of UN sanctions during the 1990s.

The authors develop a set of criteria for judging the full impact of sanctions—political, economic, and humanitarian—and then provide detailed studies of eleven cases. They conclude with far-reaching recommendations for increasing the viability of sanctions as a productive diplomatic tool.

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