Garfield, Richard.
London : Overseas Development Institute, 1999.
34 p. ; 30 cm.
(RRN network paper
Relief and Rehabilitation Network ; 31)
850034353
Economic sanctions.
Medical economics.
Overseas Development Institute.
Pamphlet HF 1413.5 .G37 1999
20991
Cover title.
November 1999.
Includes bibliography—(p. 33-34).
Contents: 1. Executive summary—2. Introduction—3. Country case studies : Cuba, Haiti, Iraq—4. Coping strategies—5. Conclusions—References—Bibliography.
Summary: Trade sanctions, as a tool of coercive foreign policy, have been very popular in the 1990s. most take the form of bilateral sanctions by the US, but the number of UN sanctions has also increased and regional groupings of states are also turning to the tool. Fairly comprehensive trade embargoes have Haiti (Organizations of American States, UN), Iraq (UN), Sierra Leone (ECOWAS, the economic community of West African States) and Burundi (neighbouring states)—(p. 1).