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Article: War by other means: criteria for the use of economic sanctions.
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- Commonweal
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- February 28, 1997
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The end of the cold war has presented American foreign policy with a paradoxical situation: As the remaining superpower, the United States can consider military intervention without great risk, yet in the absence of a clear threat to the nation most Americans are increasingly unwilling to support military intervention. Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia, each in its own way, illustrates the general uneasiness most U.S. citizens feel about sending troops abroad. Add to this sense of caution the desire of many people to support alternatives to armed conflict, among which is economic sanctions.
Economic sanctions are essentially efforts to influence a country's behavior by ...