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For example, the Chinese government reiterated its core diplomatic principle of non-intervention in other countries’ affairs during the Libya crisis, yet China accepted the imposition of United Nations’ sanctions on Muammar Qaddafi’s government.
There has been pressure to impose targeted sanctions aimed at impeding the financial operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which holds a virtual monopoly over strategic industries such as banking, defense and construction.
Many European companies have profited from investing in such firms, which means deciding on the terms of sanctions could prove cumbersome.
Targeted sanctions aimed at the Revolutionary Guard would be an important step, but so is clearly expressing solidarity with the millions of Iranian men and women who are fighting for a democratic and pluralist society.
Trump’s Recipe for Middle East ChaosBERLIN – US President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this month to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement, and to shift toward a policy of renewed sanctions and confrontation, will make the future of the Middle East even more uncertain.
Unfortunately, the JCPOA probably cannot survive the reimposition of US sanctions.
Once again, the two countries have forged a "coalition of the unwilling"--this time against the sanctions mechanism of the European Stability and Growth Pact, which limits the size of euro members' budget deficits to 3% of GDP.
Without such introspection, the US and its European allies will probably continue to depend on economic sanctions to deter Russian aggression.
Moreover, as Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov has shown, sanctions can be presented as a blessing, forcing the Kremlin to diversify Russia’s commodities-based economy.
Instead of, say, imposing sanctions or exerting localized military pressure on China, the Obama administration has attempted to pass the buck.
By contrast, Xi and Park issued a joint statement proclaiming the importance of faithfully implementing United Nations Security Council resolutions that call for sanctions against North Korea, as well as a multilateral agreement in 2005 that obliges the North to exchange its nuclear-weapons programs for economic and diplomatic benefits.
After all, many today – including Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Russia – are laboring under United States financial sanctions.
What this calls for, above all, is prevention of nuclear proliferation (beginning with Iran), whether through diplomacy and sanctions, or, if need be, through sabotage and military attacks.
While Congress is already preparing sanctions, these will not, on their own, comprise a comprehensive Iran strategy.
The US cannot continue to base its policy toward Iran – a huge country with a population of over 80 million, a growing economy, and strong regional influence – on sanctions and vitriol.
Initial reactions to North Korea’s nuclear test were uniformly critical, culminating (thus far) in UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which condemns the test, demands that North Korea resume full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and imposes a range of military, political, and economic sanctions.
Both South Korea and China are reluctant to support robust sanctions.
It will take a blend of the three options – the threat of military force, the reality of economic sanctions, and the resumption of diplomacy —to deal with North Korea’s challenge.
They and their successors used Lockerbie as a pretext to press for the adoption of crippling UN sanctions.
Eventually, economic sanctions compelled Qaddafi to distance himself from international terror and to turn over Megrahi – as well as another suspect, Lamin Fhima, who was later acquitted – to face a Scottish tribunal at Camp Zeist in Holland.
Thanks largely to the West’s interest in Saudi oil, however, the Kingdom has faced no international sanctions.
The US Congress, meanwhile, is readying yet another round of sanctions against Iran.
When the fighting finally ended in 1988, the US followed up with financial and trade sanctions on Iran that remain in place to this day.
Since 1953, the US has opposed Iran’s self-rule and economic development through covert action, support for authoritarian rule during 1953-79, military backing for its enemies, and decades-long sanctions.
The EU has imposed targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe, including a visa ban on senior officials, and there were protests when Mugabe appeared in Paris in February 2003 for the last France-Africa summit on European territory.
An approach based on sanctions that target the Russian economy (and therefore its people) is the preferred alternative of those with the least at stake (US politicians).
But sanctions are unlikely to bring about the internal changes that Russia needs, because those changes need to be accomplished by the Russian people.
These factors explain why Serbia did not join the EU in imposing sanctions against Russia after it annexed Crimea in March 2014.
Bosnia and Macedonia also chose not to participate in the EU sanctions, while NATO members Albania and Montenegro did.
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