The Tactics of Economic Sanctions: Measures Short of War

Abstract

The post cold war era offers new challenges to those formulating national security policies. Some analysts have argued that economic measures are growing in significance and that economic strength and prosperity will be the new sources of power in the coming decades. This paper examines one aspect of this use of economic strength, that of economic sanctions. The study points out that economic sanctions operate in an extremely complex environment and that in order to analyze their use and effectiveness, it is important to view them systemically. As such, the paper offers a conceptual model that captures the major features of this process. The paper then further analyzes sanctions with the use of this model, focusing on potential policy goals for sanctions and effects on the targeted state and the imposing state. The study concludes that sanctions, while certainly an important addition to the statecraft process, will continue to play only a limited role in the national security process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 15, 1992
Accession Number
ADA251445

Entities

People

  • Hans A. Van Winkle

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

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Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cold War
  • Economic Impact
  • Economic Policy
  • Economic Sanctions
  • Economic Systems
  • Economic Warfare
  • Economics
  • Foreign Policy
  • Governments
  • Law
  • Market Economy
  • National Security
  • New York
  • Second World War
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • War Colleges

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  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design