ECONOMIC SANCTIONS PART III: EUROPIAN UNION LAW

Secondary economic sanctions

Many states, or rather their leaders and officials, routinely violate the fundamental human rights of both their compatriots or outsiders. Faced with this depressing catalogue of abuses, the international community’s response of choice consists in imposing economic sanctions on wrongdoers. The relatively scant philosophical literature on the topic tackles primary sanctions where the sanctioning...

Sanctions, Law and Public Order

Mammography; Part III

From the Book of Mammography by Dr. Zabihollah Arnavaz - Head of Radiology Department of Jorjani Hospital, National University of Iran.

The Political Economy of Economic Sanctions*

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The Humanitarian Impact of Economic Sanctions

Economic sanctions have the reputation of harming the population in the sanctioned countries. In this paper, I investigate under what circumstances such harm occurs and what is its magnitude. I estimate the impact of in utero exposure to sanctions episodes on infant weight, child height, and child mortality. Using a large child level data set from 69 countries, I …nd that being exposed to sanct...