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What to Read on Economic Sanctions

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An annotated Foreign Affairs syllabus on economic sanctions.

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But what about these?

Submitted by Jerry W. (Mar. 16, 2009) on March 16, 2009 - 7:37am.

Here are some that are just as important:

Gary C. Hufbauer, Jeffrey Schott, and Ann Elliott. Economic Sanctions Reconsidered.
Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C., 1990, Pp. 1-47.

Dianne Rennack and Robert Shuey. Economic sanctions to achieve u.s. foreign policy goals:
Discussion and guide to current law. Congressional Research Service Report, October 1997.

Robert Pape. Why economic sanctions do not work. International Security, 22(2):90–136,
1997.

Richard Farmer. Costs of economic sanctions to the sender. World Economy, pages 93–117,
2000.

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