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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Volume 13 (1999) > Debate |
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More Ethical than Not: Sanctions as Surgical Tools: Response to "A Peaceful, Silent, Deadly Remedy" [Abstract]
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December 4, 1999
Joy Gordon has made a major contribution to both the ethical analysis and the
policy evaluation of economic sanctions. But her claims against sanctions should
be understood as critique rather than condemnation and rejection of sanctions on
ethical grounds.
Through a series of arguments and examples, this response points out that
Gordon may be too narrow in defining sanctions' success, and that, where
sanctions have gone awry, it is because they were unimaginatively formulated and
poorly implemented, not because sanctions are categorically unethical.
Multilateral sanctions in the late 1990s are simply more finely tuned than a few
years ago. As a technique of coercive diplomacy, sanctions are meant to change
dramatically the costs and benefits that leaders of a nation calculate operate
in their favor as they pursue policies that the majority of the international
community have declared abhorrent. We can, with the help of Gordon's critical
claims, accomplish this goal in a more ethical manner, and by so doing, increase
the likely success of sanctions in the future.
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