Sanctions: The Record And The Rewards
Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Josef Joffe in Strategika
Why are sanctions so popular? Because “there is nothing else between words and military action to bring pressure upon a government,” explains Jeremy Greenstock, Britain’s long-term ambassador at the UN. It is bloodless—warfare on the cheap. Nonlethal means are the main attraction for democracies loath to go to war in remote places against states that do not pose an existential threat.
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Do Economic Sanctions Work?
Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Angelo M. Codevilla in Strategika
Economic strictures are acts of war. Throughout history, the starvation and disease they have caused have killed more people than all other instruments of war. But like all other instruments, their effectiveness depends on the circumstances in which they are used and on the policies of which they are part.
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Do Economic Sanctions Work?
Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Thomas Donnelly in Strategika
Recently, the United States’ closest European allies, Britain, France, and Germany, proposed “fresh” economic sanctions on Iran as an effort to force Tehran to comply with both the letter and the spirit of the 2015 “Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action” meant to delay the Islamic Republic’s development of nuclear weapons.
Read the full article in Strategika here.
