Utility of international economic senctions / edited by Leyton David Brown

The crisis over the imposition of sanctions against South Africa indicates that economic sanctions have become a controversial feature of the international political scene. Often new international political crises have led to new sanctions - Poland, Afghanistan, Iran and Argentina are recent examples of nations which have been subject to such sanctions. In addition to these 'crisis' sanctions, which may often only be applied by a handful of nations against one offending country, there have been more widely applied and long-term sanctions such as those against Rhodesia. This book is an authoritative review of the problem of economic sanctions. Each chapter looks at a particular international economic sanction in detail and all address a common set of comparative questions, dealing with the goals which can (and cannot) be achieved by the application of economic sanctions, the intended and unintended consequences and the factors which contribute to success or failure.