| ID | 151313 |
| Title Proper | Constructing sanctions |
| Other Title Information | rallying around the target in Zimbabwe |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Jaeger, Mark Daniel |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Targeted’ sanctions seek to circumvent a target state’s citizens in general from the adverse economic impact of coercion. Arguably, this would remedy some of the population’s incentives to engage in the well-known “rallying-around-the-flag”. Yet occasionally, targeted sanctions still seem to produce such an effect. This paper explores sanctions conflicts as social constructs. It purports that rally-around-the-flag is all but one part of the discursive dimension of sanctions conflicts. Sanctions are intricately connected with the conflict setting they occur in. The study suggests a dialectical relation between how opponents perceive conflicts and the meaning of sanctions therein. This nexus of different constructions of sanctions moreover extends to “targeted” sanctions as well: As restrictive measures against Zimbabwe demonstrate, they are not the kind of minimally-invasive operations with clinical precision as such reasoning would suggest. Whether sanctions are really “targeted”, sparing the economy and concentrating on the culprits, is as much a question of discourse in the target state. |
| `In' analytical Note | Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol. 29, No.3; Sep 2016: p.952-969 |
| Journal Source | Cambridge Review of International Affairs Vol: 29 No 3 |
| Key Words | Zimbabwe ; Economic Impact ; Constructing Sanctions |