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Political Gain and Civilian Pain: Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions
The use of sanctions is increasing in the post-cold war world. Along with this increase,
the international community must ask itself whether sanctions "work,"
in the sense that they incite citizens to change or overthrow an offending government,
and whether sanctions are really less damaging than the alternative of war.
Here for the first time, sanctions and humanitarian aid experts focus on the
humanitarian impacts of UN sanctions. The results show that often the most vulnerable
members of targeted societies pay the price of sanctions and that, in addition,
the international system is called upon to compensate the victims for the undeniable
pain they have suffered.
This book is a joint effort of Brown University's Watson Institute, the Fourth
Freedom Forum, and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
at the University of Notre Dame.
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David Cortright is chair of the Board and Senior Fellow of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana and codirector of its Sanctions and Security Research Program. He is also director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.
George A. Lopez holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Chair in Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lopez's research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force. For a list of publications by Lopez, please go to the Kroc Institute, Lopez, CV.
Paper back: $28.95; Cloth: $82.00; $4.00 s&h for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. Canadian, $5.00 for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. International, $7.50 for first book, $5.00 for each additional book.
ISBN: 0-8476-8703-1 pb; ISBN: 0-8476-8702 hc
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