Visit UNSanctionsApp.com and answer the following questions:
- Review the Types of Sanctions and Designing Sanctions section of the app about sanctions and answer the following:
What are the most common objectives of UN sanctions? _ What is the most common type of sanction?
What is the average time it takes to implement sanctions after noting a threat? _ How often are sanctions effective in getting states to change their behavior? _ How often do sanctions have unintended consequences _? What is the most common of these __?
- Review the Sanctions Checklist: Core elements: Targets section in the Designing Sanctions section of the App:
What are 3 examples of targets for sanctions?
What are 3 ways that countries try to evade sanctions?
- Choose two cases from "Cases and Episodes". Find out why sanctions were imposed, what the sanctions were and what the effect was and summarize your findings.
- Based on what you’ve read, did anything surprise you? How do you evaluate the usefulness of sanctions as a tool of foreign policy?