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Political gain and civilian pain : humanitarian impacts of economic sanctions

The use of sanctions in increasing in the post-Cold War world. Along with this increase, the international community must ask itself whether sanctions "work," in the sense that they incite citizens to change or overthrow an offending government, and whether sanctions are really less damaging than the alternative of war. Here for the first time, sanctions and humanitarian aid experts converge on these questions and consider the humanitarian impacts of sanctions along with their potential political benefits. The results show that often the most vulnerable members of targeted societies pay the price of sanctions and that, in addition, the international system is called upon to compensate the victims for the undeniable pain they have suffered
Print Book, English, ©1997
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, ©1997
xxii, 277 pages : maps ; 24 cm
9780847687022, 9780847687039, 0847687023, 0847687031
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Chapter 1 Foreword Part 2 Theoretical and Historical Perspectives Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 Economic Sanctions and Their Humanitarian Impact: An Overview Chapter 5 Toward a Framework for Analysis Part 6 Four Case Studies Chapter 7 The Humanitarian Consequences of Sanctioning South Africa Chapter 8 The Humanitarian Impact of Economic Sanctions and War in Iraq Chapter 9 Non-forcible and Forcible Sanctions in the Former Yugoslavia Chapter 10 Humanitarian Effects of the Coup and Sanctions in Haiti Part 11 Conclusions Chapter 12 Political Gain and Civilian Pain