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Revision as of 02:33, 10 August 2005 by Jove Is Mad (talk | contribs) (→Economic sanctions)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)International sanctions are actions taken by countries against others for political reasons, either unilaterally or multilaterally, and consist of three major forms:
- Diplomatic sanctions - the reduction or removal of diplomatic ties, such as embassies.
- Economic sanctions - typically a ban on trade, possibly limited to certain sectors such as armaments, or with certain exceptions (such as food and medicine)
- Military sanctions - military intervention
Economic sanctions are distinguished from trade sanctions, which are applied for purely economic reasons, and typically take the form of tariffs or similar measures, rather than bans on trade.
Diplomatic sanctions
As an example, the European Union imposed diplomatic sanctions on Cuba after the latter broke a moratorium on capital punishment in 2003. Measures included limitations on high-level government visits.
Economic sanctions
Economic sanctions can vary from imposing import duties on goods from, or blocking the export of on certain goods to, the target country, to a full naval blockade of its ports in effort to verify, and curb or block specified imported goods.
Well-known examples of economic sanctions include the United Nations sanctions against Iraq (1990-2003) and the United States embargo against Cuba (1961-present).
The Iraq sanctions: United Nations and United States both imposed stringent economic sanctions on Iraq from Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 through the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The sanctions are credited with having resulted in the deaths of perhaps one million Iraqi children. Initially sanctions were imposed to compel Iraq to leave Kuwait. After the Gulf War of 1991, stated rationales for the sanctions changed to include fostering regime change in Iraq and forcing Iraq to co-operate with U.N. weapons inspections.
On May 13th 1998, the United States and Japan imposed economic sanctions on India, following its second round of nuclear tests.
Military sanctions
Similarly, military sanctions can range from carefully-targeted airborne assaults of bombers (such as Israel's 1981 bombing of Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor) to invasion and occupation. A less aggressive form of military sanctions could be the 15 year embargo on sales of F-16 fighter/bomber aircraft by the United States to Pakistan which ran from 1990 to 2005 in response to Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons. (The latter is considered a military sanction, not an economic one.)
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