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Rain Dancing
Kim Richard Nossal
其他書名
Sanctions in Canadian and Australian Foreign Policy
出版University of Toronto Press, 1994
主題Business & Economics / GeneralPolitical Science / International Relations / General
ISBN08020047259780802004727
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7tYUAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"Since their success during the First World War, sanctions have become a popular tool of statecraft, used to deter, coerce, or punish regimes that violate international norms. For example, like other Western states, Canada has been an active sanctioner, imposing sanctions against some twenty-two countries during the 1980s. In this book, Kim Richard Nossal questions the usefulness, for middle powers such as Canada and Australia, of the theory that underpins international sanctions. He contends that because Canada and Australia lack the economic capabilities that give the sanctions of major powers their bit, the sanctions of these middle powers amount to no more than a rain dance: they accomplish little but make the public feel that something is being done about a serious problem. Nossal present six case studies of Canadian and Australian sanctions episodes from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, against China, Indonesia, Iraq, the former Soviet Union, South African, and Vietnam. He explores the conception and justification of sanctions within the political discourse surrounding each episode, and examines factors such as domestic, coalition, and symbolic politics. Nossal concludes that even through sanctions achieve few foreign-policy goals, they inflict harm on ordinary people and are therefore a foreign-policy tool of questionable morality."--Page 4 of cover.