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Sanctions - ✔✔1) Measures or actions taken against a target to influence its behavior
2) An economic action taken against a target (state, class of persons, individual, or
function) to influence the targets actions.
What are the categories of sanctions restrictions (or restrictive measures)? -
✔✔Financial, Diplomatic, Trade, and Travel.
What was the first recorded instance of sanctions use? - ✔✔Fifth Century B.C.,
Megarian decree banned citizens of Megara from accessing markets in the Athenian
empire (leading to 2nd Peloponnesian war).
Embargo - ✔✔A physical block of trade with another nation, most common sanction up
until the late 19th century.
Blockade - ✔✔An economic sanction by a country or coalition involving deployment of
troops to block ports or access.
League of Nations - ✔✔An organization of nations formed after World War I to
promote cooperation and peace. The power to deploy sanctions was was included in
the League's covenant.
Boycott - ✔✔A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in
protest against its policies
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, multilateral sanctions - ✔✔Sanctions imposed by more than one country
unilateral sanctions - ✔✔Sanctions imposed by only one country
What prompted the Japanese decision to enter World War II and
attack Pearl Harbor. - ✔✔US trade sanctions. This situation provoked questions
regarding whether sanctions were an alternative to war, or whether they instead might
rush nations to use military force
When did governments imposed sanctions more often than in prior decades. -
✔✔During the Cold War. It was not until the 1990s, after the Cold War ended, that
unilateral sanctions began to be replaced by multilateral, intergovernmental coalitions
When and where were the most high-profile sanctions imposed? - ✔✔Between 1990 and
2003 by the UN against Iraq,
leading up to and following the first Gulf War. Costing Iraq near 48% of its GDP.
What are the purposes of sanctions? - ✔✔Sanctions can provide an alternative to the use
of force. They are an extension of a nation's foreign policy to bring about another
nation's change in behavior or foreign policy
In relation to changing a nation's behavior, sanctions may be used for? - ✔✔Deterrence
Prevention
Punishment
The EU has historically imposed which type of sanctions? What about recently? -
✔✔Geographic. Issued-based, including human rights.
In addition to human rights, what are some additional purposes sanctions have been
used? - ✔✔Preventing war
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