Sanctions

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Written By Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher

https://www.rozen-bakher.com/forum/2021/07/27/sanctions

Published Date: 27 July 2021. Latest Update: 25 February 2022

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Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher

Researcher in International Relations with a Focus on Security, Political and Economic Risks for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade

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Are Economic Sanctions Effective to Change the Course of a Regime Policy or a Regime Behaviour?

Do Economic Sanctions Create Alternatives that Backfire on the Sanctions Tool?

Are Economic Sanctions Backfire on the Global Prosperity when they are used often against many Regimes?

In the last decade, economic sanctions are used often to ‘punish’ regimes that don’t act according to the Western norms and democratic values or to change the course of a regime policy. Still, it is doubtful if economic sanctions are effective to transform regimes to democratic regimes or to change the policy of a regime.

Looking at many cases of economic sanctions worldwide, then the Sanctions Tool even raises concerns that it may backfire on the objectives of the sanctions because it may lead to informal channels to fulfil the vacuum that the sanctions create.

Worse than that, instead of transforming regimes to democratic regimes or changing a problematic policy of a regime via sanctions, then it may lead to antagonism against the Western countries and against the USA, in particular, because the USA often imposes sanctions against many regimes, resulting in changing the global order in a way that weakens the democratic world, especially undermining the global position of the USA as a hegemonic superpower.

From the perspective of global prosperity, Western countries should examine the effectiveness of the sanctions tool, especially if it leads to ‘Sanctions-War’ between the superpowers in terms of tit-for-tat sanctions that each superpower/country may impose on rivals. Importantly, the democratic world should consider the use of diplomacy for regime transformation instead of punishing problematic regimes via sanctions in order to prevent 'push out' regimes from a half-democracy regime to an autocratic regime.

See also a few analysis on Sanctions from Monitoring Risks by Dr. Rozen-Bakher

 
Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher

Dr. Ziva Rozen-Bakher - A Researcher in International Relations with a Focus on Security, Political and Economic Risks for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and International Trade

https://www.rozen-bakher.com/
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