Putting Teeth in the Tiger: Improving the Effectiveness of Arms Embargoes

by Michael Bzoska

Book Overview

Foreign affairs practitioners and policy analysts claim that international arms embargoes usually fail due to the lack of political will among national governments to implement and enforce these restrictions. This volume confronts this critique directly, first by describing a more nuanced assessment of success, and then by presenting well-informed empirical and case-study chapters that reveal arms embargoes to be more effective than often understood...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848552025
• ISBN13: 9781848552029
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"