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Sanctions as siege warfare
Gordon, Joy | March 22, 1999 issue

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This article debates on the viability of U.S. bombings on Iraq. The role of the UN in the Iraqi sanctions regime has been convoluted and contradictory from the start. Articles 41 and 42 of the UN Charter empower the Security Council to use economic tactics to keep international peace, although before sanctions were imposed on Iraq in 1990, the UN had imposed them only twice, against South Africa and Rhodesia. The Iraqi crisis shows how peculiarly unsuited the UN is to managing a sanctions regime. This is partly because it had imposed sanctions so rarely before and partly because of its long- standing commitment to alleviating poverty rather than causing it.

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BOMBINGS; UNITED Nations. Security Council; PEACE; RECONSTRUCTION (1914-1939); IRAQ; UNITED States
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