Economic Sanctions and American Diplomacy

Book Overview

Draws on eight country studies to present lessons to be learned from the American use of economic sanctions in the post-Cold War era, and provides guidelines designed to shape future decisions by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876092121
• ISBN13: 9780876092125
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Jesse Helms should read it

This work illuminates the worst of American diplomacy. Sanctions have become a substitute for thinking among policymakers. Jesse Helms should read it.

the best thing written on economic sanctions

This book analyzes all the major cases of the use of economic sanctions by the United States since the end of the cold war (Iraq, Iran, Cuba, Libya, Haiti, Pakistan, China, etc.). It explains what you can expect from this tool of foreign policy, when it should be used, and why it has (unfortunately) become the knee-jerk response of the country to any and every foreign policy crisis. If only politicians read books...