{"id":11120,"date":"2018-03-30T12:39:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11120"},"modified":"2018-03-30T12:39:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T19:39:35","slug":"strategika-issue-49-the-value-of-economic-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-issue-49-the-value-of-economic-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategika Issue 49: The Value of Economic Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Sanctions: The Record And The Rewards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Josef Joffe in Strategika<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why are sanctions so popular? Because \u201cthere is nothing else between words and military action to bring pressure upon a government,\u201d explains Jeremy Greenstock, Britain\u2019s long-term ambassador at the UN. It is bloodless\u2014warfare 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/sanctions-record-and-rewards\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/sanctions-record-and-rewards&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1522521857282000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG5hu3lRGbF7mdwAUN2k3GdVnuYIg\">Read the full article in\u00a0<em>Strategika<\/em>\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Economic Sanctions Work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Angelo M. Codevilla in Strategika<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/do-economic-sanctions-work\">Read the full article in Strategika here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do Economic Sanctions Work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Please read a new essay by my colleague from the Military History Working Group, Thomas Donnelly in Strategika<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently, the United States\u2019 closest European allies, Britain, France, and Germany, proposed \u201cfresh\u201d economic sanctions on Iran as an effort to force Tehran to comply with both the letter and the spirit of the 2015 \u201cJoint Comprehensive Plan of Action\u201d meant to delay the Islamic Republic\u2019s development of nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/brief-guide-strategy-and-sanctions\">Read the full article in Strategika here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cthere is nothing else between words and military action to bring pressure upon a government,\u201d explains Jeremy Greenstock, Britain\u2019s long-term ambassador at the UN. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Tm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13844,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/strategika-74-the-prospects-of-a-new-iran-deal\/","url_meta":{"origin":11120,"position":0},"title":"Strategika #74: The Prospects of a New Iran Deal","author":"Victor Davis Hanson","date":"August 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Iran's Nuclear Program Please read a new essay by my colleague, Peter R. 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