The UN Security Council increasingly imposes economic sanctions to prevent, manage or resolve violent conflict The political effectiveness of these measures has been limited and the humanitarian consequences have been severe, although unintended. Yet sanctions remain attractive for many policy-makers and their extensive use is unlikely to be abandoned. In fact, sanctions can be an effective policy instrument, but they must be properly implemented and part of a comprehensive coercive strategy that includes the threat of force. Many l990s sanction regimes failed because they did not meet these two key conditions.
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