The Challenge of Targeting Economic Sanctions
| Date | 01 December 2002 |
| Author | Norrin M. Ripsman |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200205700410 |
| Published date | 01 December 2002 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
NORRIN
M.
RIPSMAN
The
challenge
of
targeting
economic
sanctions
Smart
Sanctions:
Targeting Economic
Statecraft,
edited
by
David
Cortright
and
George
A.
Lopez
(Lanham
MD:
Rowan
&
Littlefield,
2002,
xvi,
2
59pp,
us$72.00
cloth,
ISBN
0-7425-0142-6,
us$27.95,
ISBN
0-7425-0143-4)
Sanctions
and
the
Search
for
Security:
Challenges
to
UNAction,
by
David
Cortright
and
George
A.
Lopez
(with
Linda
Gerber),
(Boulder
CO
and
London:
Lynne
Rienner,
2002,
xii,
2 4
9pp,
US$49.95
cloth,
ISBN
1-
58826-053-4,
US$18.95
paper,
ISBN
1-58825-078-X)
IN
THE
POST-COLD
WAR
ERA,
ECONOMIC
SANCTIONS
have
become
the
international
community's
preferred
instrument
to
ensure
compliance
with international
law,
the protection
of
human
rights,
and
a
host
of
other
multilateral
objectives.
The
use
of
sanctions
has
become
more
sophisticated
and
complicated,
however,
as
the
United
Nations
con-
fronts
a
host
of
new
challenges
(failed
states,
transnational
terrorist
groups,
and
so
on).
Moreover,
it
is under
increasing
pressure
to
mini-
mize
the
humanitarian
costs
of
sanctions.
In
this
context,
David
Cortright
and
George
A.
Lopez
offer
two books
that
examine
the state
of
the
art
of
economic
sanctions.
Smart
Sanctions
is
a
collection
of
essays
that
investigates
the utility
of
targeting
economic
sanctions
against
the
leadership
of
a
target
state
Assistant
Professor
of
Political
Science,
Concordia
University
The
author
would
like
to
thank
Jean-Marc
E
Blanchardfur
his
thoughtful
comments.
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
Autumn
2002
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