New Tools for Reform and Stability : Sanctions, Conditionalities and Conflict Resolution
Edited by Greg Mills & Elizabeth Sidiropoulos
SAIIA: 2004
ISBN: 1-919969-10-1
Pages: 200
Price: R80,00
The
1990s and 2000s witnessed a proliferation of UN sanctions regimes
around the world, as the international community braced itself to deal
with brutal regimes and threats to international peace and security.
Although by no means a new tool for dealing with conflicts, sanctions
were increasingly refined in the 1990s to target the transgressors
rather than ordinary citizens. While they are not the sole agents of
change, sanctions are important instruments in the diplomatic armoury
available to international actors.
This book sets out to analyse the impact of sanctions and aid
conditionalities on ending conflicts and bringing about political
change. In the aftermath of sanctions against Iraq and the debate over
their use against Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, this book draws lessons
from various sanctions experiences of the last 40 years, especially in
Southern Africa, but also in Asia. It also examines the role that aid
conditionalities can play in brining about more effective development.
The book is a timely contribution to the literature at a time when
Africa is starting to implement its own ‘conditionalities’ through the
African Peer Review Mechanism of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
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