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Economic Sanctions: Effectiveness as Tools of Foreign Policy

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 19, 1992
Report No. NSIAD-92-106
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Summary:

Economic sanctions are being used more frequently by the United States and other nations as a tool of foreign policy. GAO examined 27 episodes from the post-World War I period that were particularly illustrative of the sanctions' effects. This report discusses (1) the political goals that economic sanctions can and cannot achieve; (2) the social, economic, political, and psychological effects of sanctions; and (3) the circumstances under which sanctions are likely to succeed or fail.

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