Sanctions have become an increasingly popular tool of foreign policy. Bringing together scholars and government and private practitioners, this book provides an overview of recent developments and an analysis of the problems that they have engendered.
"In recent years sanctions have become an increasingly popular tool of foreign policy, not only at the multilateral level (at the UN), but also regionally (the EU in particular) and unilaterally. The nature of the measures imposed has also changed: from comprehensive sanctions r…
Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however…
Peter van Bergeijk brings together 40 leading experts from all continents to analyze state-of-the-art data covering the sharp increase in (smart) sanctions in the last decade. Original chapters provide detailed analyses on the determinants of sanction success and failure, comple…
Introduction --Commerce Department controls on exports of "dual use" and lower-level military goods, software, and technology --State department controls on exports of defense articles and defense services --Economic sanctions --Controls on exports of nuclear commodities and on …
The U.S. government imposes a host of controls on exports of high technology and other items, as well as restrictions on transactions by U.S. persons with disfavored foreign countries, entities, and individuals. Everyone in the U.S. who exports, or does business abroad, must com…
"This book is a must for those who deal with United States government export control and economic sanctions regulations. Written as a user's manual rather than an academic or historical treatise, it covers in considerable detail-but in language that is intelligible to non-lawyer…
On July 19, 2012, the revolution of Rojava started in Kobanî. Under the initiative of the Western Kurdistan People's Council (MGRK) the population drove the Syrian Baath regime away largely bloodlessly. While the rest of Syria sank into civil war, Rojava was increasingly pointin…
"The Cuban Embargo examines the changing politics of U.S. policy toward Cuba over the more than four decades since the revolution, from the powerful Cuban American National Foundation and the Reagan administration to the Helms-Burton Act and recent strictures by the Bush adminis…