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Measures or actions taken against a target to
influence its behavior, policy, or actions.
What are Sanctions? CGSS Definition: An economic action taken against a
target to influence the target's actions. (Target could
be: a state, class of persons, an individual person, or
even a function).
Sanctions compliance is the act of adhering to the
What is Sanctions
sanctions-related legislation, regulations, rules, and
Compliance?
norms that make up the sanctions landscape.
Economic sanctions are the withdrawal of customary
What are Economic
trade and financial relations for foreign and security
Sanctions?
related purposes.
A government instituted prevention of exports to a
What is an Embargo?
certain country.
Restriction on or cessation of trading with a nation or
What is a Boycott?
bloc of nations.
What are Multi-Lateral When multiple countries work together to impose
Sanctions? sanctions on another country.
, Sanctions imposed on another country by a single
Uni-Lateral Sanctions
country.
What are Sanctions Sanctions regimes are a set of sanctions that have a
Regimes? common theme.
What do sanctions Sanctions attempt to change behavior through
attempt to do? deterrence, prevention and punishment.
Influence Actions: Purpose:
- Military - Disrupting Military Adventures.
- Freedom and - Hastening the Achievement of Freedom and
Democracy Democracy.
(Sanctions have been
used in response to
perceived breaches of
many different types of
international standards
and for various purposes.)
Influence Actions: Purpose:
- Environmental - Cleaning up the environment.
- Nuclear - Nuclear proliferation.
(Sanctions have been
used in response to
perceived breaches of
many different types of
international standards
and for various purposes.)
, Influence Actions: Purpose:
- Human Rights - Strengthening human or labor rights.
- Free Citizens - The freeing of captured citizens.
- Land - The reversal of captures of land.
(Sanctions have been
used in response to
perceived breaches of
many different types of
international standards
and for various purposes.)
Influence Actions: Purpose:
- Money Laundering - Reduction in money laundering and terrorist
- Terrorist Financing financing.
- Illegal Goods - Reduction in trafficking of illegal goods.
(Sanctions have been
used in response to
perceived breaches of
many different types of
international standards
and for various purposes.)
The Iran and Libya Sanctions Act which became law in
1996. Act by US Congress that imposed economic
sanctions on firms doing business with Iran and Libya.
What is the ILSA?
Renamed the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) in 2006. Allows
the President to waive sanctions on a case-by-case
basis.
The NPT is the Non-Proliferation Treaty which became
What is the NPT? law in March of 1970. To prevent the spread of nuclear
weapons and weapons technology.
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Terms in this set (178)
Measures or actions taken against a target to
influence its behavior, policy, or actions.
What are Sanctions? CGSS Definition: An economic action taken against a
target to influence the target's actions. (Target could
be: a state, class of persons, an individual person, or
even a function).
Sanctions compliance is the act of adhering to the
What is Sanctions
sanctions-related legislation, regulations, rules, and
Compliance?
norms that make up the sanctions landscape.
Economic sanctions are the withdrawal of customary
What are Economic
trade and financial relations for foreign and security
Sanctions?
related purposes.
A government instituted prevention of exports to a
What is an Embargo?
certain country.
Restriction on or cessation of trading with a nation or
What is a Boycott?
bloc of nations.
What are Multi-Lateral When multiple countries work together to impose
Sanctions? sanctions on another country.
, Sanctions imposed on another country by a single
Uni-Lateral Sanctions
country.
What are Sanctions Sanctions regimes are a set of sanctions that have a
Regimes? common theme.
What do sanctions Sanctions attempt to change behavior through
attempt to do? deterrence, prevention and punishment.
Influence Actions: Purpose:
- Military - Disrupting Military Adventures.
- Freedom and - Hastening the Achievement of Freedom and
Democracy Democracy.
(Sanctions have been
used in response to
perceived breaches of
many different types of
international standards
and for various purposes.)
Influence Actions: Purpose:
- Environmental - Cleaning up the environment.
- Nuclear - Nuclear proliferation.
(Sanctions have been
used in response to
perceived breaches of
many different types of
international standards
and for various purposes.)
, Influence Actions: Purpose:
- Human Rights - Strengthening human or labor rights.
- Free Citizens - The freeing of captured citizens.
- Land - The reversal of captures of land.
(Sanctions have been
used in response to
perceived breaches of
many different types of
international standards
and for various purposes.)
Influence Actions: Purpose:
- Money Laundering - Reduction in money laundering and terrorist
- Terrorist Financing financing.
- Illegal Goods - Reduction in trafficking of illegal goods.
(Sanctions have been
used in response to
perceived breaches of
many different types of
international standards
and for various purposes.)
The Iran and Libya Sanctions Act which became law in
1996. Act by US Congress that imposed economic
sanctions on firms doing business with Iran and Libya.
What is the ILSA?
Renamed the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) in 2006. Allows
the President to waive sanctions on a case-by-case
basis.
The NPT is the Non-Proliferation Treaty which became
What is the NPT? law in March of 1970. To prevent the spread of nuclear
weapons and weapons technology.
