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This is a 16 page paper which discuses the history of the use of Economic Sanctions, the various forms of sanctions and how they are used.
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or countries that are unwilling to adhere to the international norms. One of the typical responses is the use of economic sanctions. However, the use of economic sanctions
is widely debated and disputed because it is felt that there are major issues concerning the nature, duration and possible human cost of economic sanctions. Sanctions are the deliberate, government-inspired
withdrawal, or threat of withdrawal, of customary trade or financial relations with a target country in an effort to change that countrys policies. For example, the United States may block
World Bank or International Monetary Fund loans in an effort to stem nuclear proliferation (India, Pakistan), it may restrict trade with countries in an effort to change its human rights
policy (in the past Argentina and Chile; currently China), or it may impose comprehensive trade and financial sanctions against countries supporting international terrorism (Libya, Syria, Sudan and Iran). Current U.S.
sanctions are authorized or mandated under a large number of statutes and executive orders. Over the past decade, and in particular since the end of the Cold War, Congress has
taken a more active role in the formulation of foreign policy. State and local governments have also felt freer to shape the agenda. BACKGROUND/HISTORY OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS For
nearly two millennia, the countries and nations of the world have been trying to influence each others behavior by imposing economic sanctions (Paulson, 1999). As far back as 432
B.C., the officials of Athens denied traders from the state of Megara access to Athens harbor and its marketplace (Paulson, 1999). In that year or perhaps even earlier, the Athenian
politician Pericles proposed and the Assembly accepted a law, which was to become known as the Megarian Decree (Lendering, 2006). The issue was a simple one. The occupants of
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