Talk:Economic sanctions

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Upshot?
so what economic sanctions that have worked and if not why didn't they work? South Africa? Not sure that the sanctions did end apartheid...


 * No, the sanction were also half heartedly applied. The late former CIA funded journalist Brian Crozier writes in his memoirs 'Free Agent'

they were only applied half heartedly. That was my impression, too, visiting there in 1977. Crozier says something about needing them and I think he might have meant 2 things: the platinum and the mercenary outfit that could be hired for 'operations' all over Africa.


 * In Venezuela the sanctions seem to have worked because the country is half destroyed, so there they have been a success. In Russia the sanctions have not been successful and I do not think they ever will be. Russians are tough people, the country is big and has a powerful neighbour. This means not all countries can be destroyed, or drummed into obedience through sanctions to initiate regime change. 2001:8003:AC60:1400:1052:1011:CAE:ED24 (talk) 05:52, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Were the Iraq trade sanctions designed to bottle up the oil remaining in Iraq for future use by who ever took control of the country as oil supplies begin to dwindle? They seem unusually harsh just for punishment over the Kuwait invasion...

The people havd a write and a demand to see ME!


 * What exactly are you trying to say here? 167.206.48.221 (talk) 17:57, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Comprehensive list
It would be interesting to list all countries currently subject to economic sanctions. -- Beland (talk) 16:35, 25 June 2010 (UTC)


 * It would be. Lets do it then. 167.206.48.221 (talk) 17:53, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Could economic sanctions against the USA be possible?
Would it be possible to impose economic sanctions against the USA? 86.176.190.13 (talk) 03:47, 1 November 2012 (UTC)


 * It has the largest military industrial complex that humanity has ever known- it's military spending is half of the worlds. I'm guessing if someone tried, they would be "liberated", and have whatever resources they were withholding, just taken.


 * Steel Tariff 2002. EU was going to do it and USA backed down from its tariff. So yea, it is possible. 167.206.48.221 (talk) 17:55, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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Merge from Embargo
An embargo is just a particularly strong form of economic sanctions, and there's no clear dividing line between the two. There is a large amount of content overlap (examples, rationale, assessment of effectiveness) and very little (explanation of vocabulary) that does not. I would like to merge the articles so we can take advantage of the contributions to both in a single, unified form, and make progress faster since less work will be required than doing this in two different places. -- Beland (talk) 02:01, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Is "embargo" considered to be synonymous with "economic sanctions", according to any expert on this subject? Jarble (talk) 22:47, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure, this expert piece uses the two words as synonyms. The dictionary definition of sanction encompasses non-economic prohibitions, which is also true of the some of the meanings in the dictionary definition of embargo.  But the article embargo only deals with economic embargoes (not say embargoing of a press release, which is a common usage in journalism).  So the content of embargo is a good candidate for merging with economic sanctions but not the other articles linked from the disambiguation page sanction or the intro of international sanctions.
 * Various parties have compared the definitions   and they seem to agree that "embargo" can be "complete" (which might be implied if there is no modifier) or "partial" (usually explicitly specified) while "sanctions" does not imply the degree to which trade is restricted unless further specified by other words.  More authoritative sources could probably be found, but these explanations agree with how I hear those words used in the news media. -- Beland (talk) 16:39, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Agreed and ✅ Klbrain (talk) 18:27, 23 August 2017 (UTC)

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The continuous embargos of The Cold War
Hi. I am missing solid information in this article about the continuous embargos between the Eastern and the Western blocs during the Cold War. If someone wants to help, then please join in on this issue. RhinoMind (talk) 19:14, 6 May 2018 (UTC)

Soft merge
I am going to comment in large amounts of content from Weaponization of finance, an article that I am dubious should even exist, given that it is almost exclusively tied to political consultant Ian Bremmer, whose company has been creating articles about him and his ideas for well over a decade (see here for evidence and links to the COI noticeboard discussion). My goal is to edit that information gradually and integrate it into the article appropriately, given that Weaponization of finance does have some decent descriptions of economic sanctions (literally under a section titled Economic sanctions...) WhinyTheYounger (talk) 01:05, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Does withholding MFN count as sanctions?
I personally think so but I'm not sure. I have a source here. It states that MFN is the rule rather than the exception, and - with exceptions - MFN was withheld from the Communist countries during the Cold War. Can thus withholding MFN count as sanctions/economic warfare? Source here. Transylvania1916 (talk) 21:34, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Unwieldy article
The overwhelming majority of the article is devoted to specific sanctions implemented by the US and a few other countries. This means that the article almost takes on the form of a listicle, which is not particularly pleasant to read. Relatively little space is devoted to explaining the general history, functioning and efficacy of sanctions. Snooganssnoogans (talk) 00:40, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

How to raise the article's content assessment grade?
Why is the article's content assessment grade is C?

What should be done to raise it's content assessment? (e.g. what topics are missing? What are the problems? Galaranty (talk) 06:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

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section on effectiveness of sanctions
I propose to rework the section on the effectiveness of sanctions by clarifying and streamlining some points as well as adding additional sources.Blaze Droste1977 18:31, 26 June 2024 (UTC)