Sanctions and World Polarity: an Analysis of the Efficacy of Sanctions As the World Shifts From Unipolarity to Multipolarity and How This Change Affects the Order of the International Political Economy
Journal: ePublications at Regis University (Regis University)
Year: 2014

Sanctions will likely be a foreign policy tool that many countries will use more against each other in the future. Understanding them will be crucial to understand the complex political and economic relations of the world at any particular time. The first question this paper tries to explore is how sanctions work and how are they implemented by the countries that impose them. The second question at the core of this work is how sanctions are examined and evaluated; what framework is used to analy