More Ethical than Not: Sanctions as Surgical Tools

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 13, Issue , 1999, Pages 143-148

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EID: 0041571092     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.1999.tb00331.x     Document Type: Article

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1. This is no mean feat, as virtually all ethical assessment of sanctions to date has been undertaken within this “genre.” Most notable in this regard are Adam Winkler, “Just Sanctions,” Human Rights Quarterly 21 (1999), pp. 133–55
2. Peter Rudolf, “Power Without Principles? Ethical Problems of International Economic Sanctions,” Law and State 57 (1998), pp. 9–21
3. Albert C. Pierce, “Just War Principles and Economic Sanctions,” Ethics & International Affairs 10 (1996), pp. 99–113
4. Drew Christiansen, S.J., and Gerard F. Powers, “Economic Sanctions and Just-War Doctrine,” in David Cortright and George A. Lopez, eds., Economic Sanctions: Panacea or Peacebuilding in a Post-Cold War World (Boulder: Westview Press, 1995), pp. 97–120.
5. See, especially, George A. Lopez and David Cortright, “Pain and Promise,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 54 (May-June 1998), pp. 39–43.
6. For one such study see Thomas Weiss et al., eds., Political Gain and Civilian Pain: The Humanitarian Impact of Economic Sanctions (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
7. For such an argument see George A. Lopez, “The Sanctions Dilemma: Hype Doesn't Help,” Commonweal, September 11, 1998, pp. 10–12.
8. For some of the conceptual underpinnings of “smart sanctions” see George A. Lopez and David Cortright, “Financial Sanctions: The Key to a ‘Smart’ Sanctions Strategy,” Die Friedens-Warte 72 (December 1997), pp. 327–36
9. “Toward Smarter, More Effective United Nations Sanctions,” An Executive Summary of a Symposium on Security Council Targeted Sanctions, December 7, 1998, New York City, 9 pp. Http://www.fourthfreedom.org/unSymposium/sumrnary.html.