Economic Sanctions: Evolution, Consequences, and Challenges
跨学科考察二战后经济制裁的演变,将其分为四个时期,并讨论制裁与国际政治经济秩序的关系,指出经济学与政治学视角结合能深化对制裁过程的理解,最后提出未来研究的问题与挑战。
Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, we examine the evolution of economic sanctions in the post-World War II era and reflect on the lessons that could be drawn from their features and patterns of use. We observe that, during this time, there has been a remarkable increase in the use of sanctions as an instrument of foreign policy. We classify this period into four ‘eras’ and discuss, in this context, how the evolution of sanctions may be linked to salient features of the contemporaneous international political and economic orders. Our review of the related literatures in economics and political science suggests, among other things, that our understanding of sanction processes could be significantly advanced by marrying these perspectives. We conclude by identifying several questions and challenges, and by discussing how interdisciplinary research could address them.