Article: Arms embargoes: making sanctions smarter.

Sanctions are a way for a country or a group of countries to signal disapproval of action taken by a state (or a group within a state) considered to pose a threat to international peace and security. Traditionally sanctions have been applied in a comprehensive manner, but recent efforts have been made to target sanctions more narrowly and avoid causing humanitarian harm often associated with comprehensive sanctions. This is the thinking behind "smart sanctions," a theory which involves targeting sanctions on individuals or governing elites responsible for violating international norms without creating adverse social consequences for the general population. The inability of ...

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