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The majority academic verdict has long concluded that economic sanctions are a policy instrument with little, if any, chance of achieving much beyond making policy-makers feel good about having done something for a particular domestic community. Yet it is equally axiomatic that ‘policy-makers do “not seem to have been deterred by any academic conventional wisdom from applying sanctions”’ (Philip Hansen quoted in Nossal, 1989, p. 301). The end of the Cold War has not slowed the use of sanctions, especially from the perspective of the American business community (see, for example, National Association of Manufacturers, 1997; Haass, 1997), who have formed a lobbying entity whose specific purpose is to curtail restrictions on economic activities for ‘foreign policy’ purposes.
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Fisk, D.W. (2000). Economic Sanctions: The Cuba Embargo Revisited. In: Chan, S., Drury, A.C. (eds) Sanctions as Economic Statecraft. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596979_4
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