Economic Sanctions and Political Repression: Assessing the Impact of Coercive Diplomacy on Political Freedoms

Human Rights Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 393-411

  Peksen, Dursun ^a   Drury, A Cooper ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Coercive diplomacy; Democracy; Economic sanctions; Human rights; Political repression

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950780396     PISSN: 15248879     EISSN: 18746306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12142-009-0126-2     Document Type: Article

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