How Sanctions Work pp 264-282 | Cite as
Making Sanctions Work: Comparative Lessons
Abstract
The struggle to eliminate apartheid encompassed many facets of social, economic, and political reform, including demands to outlaw explicit social discrimination, institute equal political rights and propagate peace in the region. Most of the chapters in this volume demonstrate that international pressures contributed to these goals. Sanctioners strengthened the anti-apartheid movement, and added political and economic incentives for the ruling National Party (NP) to repeal apartheid laws and enter into negotiations with the extra-parliamentary opposition. Numerous strategic, economic, and social sanctions also weakened the regime’s ability to maintain apartheid, even undermining its ideological foundations. Yet some of the chapters also show that sanctions produced counterproductive effects. The militarization of government and society increased; import-substitution industrialization developed; an isolationist spirit crystallized among the white electorate.
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