What are smart sanctions? Are they more or less successful than other types of economic sanctions? In your answer, explain how and why the United States imposes the five types of economic sanctions and give an example of each.

What will be an ideal response?

Answers should describe the process by which the United States regulates trade and aid through sanctions. Answers should identify the following types of sanctions: boycott, embargo, divestment, frozen assets, and suspension of foreign aid. Smart sanctions should be identified as methods that do not punish the general citizenry but affect the government and elites in a country.

Political Science

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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Which of the following statements is most consistent with constructivist theory? a. International law and collective security regimes mirror changes in the popular views on the way states shouldinteract with one another

b. Material underpinnings are the most important elements in understanding conflict and peace. c. No international organization can or should be able to interfere with the decision-making processes within asovereign state. d. The most important thing is for everyone in the world to be happy.

Political Science