POLI 360 Chapter : "Economic Sanctions and the Problem of Evil" (Adeno Addis)
Document Summary
Use of economic sanctions (es) increasingly challenged more than just for behaviour modification of target regime also the process through which sanctioning community defines its identity by dissociating itself from the target regime. Unsc in afghanistan failed to get the ruling party, the taliban, to stop supporting terrorists in 1990s and 2000 and they never turned over. Bin laden instrumental justification is empirically unsound and conceptually flawed. Taliban regime and saddam hussein iraq regime were only toppled by ongoing us-led military operations. Castro regime still in control of cuba, even after years of harsh. We the people in the charter > imagined community share set of institutions established in the charter (i. e. unsc) Unsc uses sanctions to pressure regime + signal what the boundaries of the community are two audiences for sanctions regime int"l community. Article 6 member that persistently violates the principles is expelled by the ga, upon the unsc recommendation.