Bravo for a thoughtful reflection on sanctions. Your two key points are fundamental: (1) taking both the views of those affected, and (2) evaluating the actual likely results. As someone who campaigned for sanctions against white Rhodesia and then apartheid South Africa between 1965 and 1990, and been involved in the debate about US san…
Bravo for a thoughtful reflection on sanctions. Your two key points are fundamental: (1) taking both the views of those affected, and (2) evaluating the actual likely results. As someone who campaigned for sanctions against white Rhodesia and then apartheid South Africa between 1965 and 1990, and been involved in the debate about US sanctions on Zimbabwe, I strongly agree that the default position in most cases should be not the scale of the evil, but "it depends.) See http://www.africafocus.org/editor/aa1988.pdf on Ian Smith's Rhodesia and http://www.africafocus.org/editor/zim2010.php on Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe.
Bravo for a thoughtful reflection on sanctions. Your two key points are fundamental: (1) taking both the views of those affected, and (2) evaluating the actual likely results. As someone who campaigned for sanctions against white Rhodesia and then apartheid South Africa between 1965 and 1990, and been involved in the debate about US sanctions on Zimbabwe, I strongly agree that the default position in most cases should be not the scale of the evil, but "it depends.) See http://www.africafocus.org/editor/aa1988.pdf on Ian Smith's Rhodesia and http://www.africafocus.org/editor/zim2010.php on Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe.