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Economic sanctions: the kinder, gentler alternative?

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2008
Economic sanctions are often considered to be a legitimate, more peaceful alternative to war. Using examples, particularly that of Iraq, it is evident that this is not necessarily so. As attempts are made to design coercion on nation states short of war, we must heed these examples and consider sanctions as a form of siege warfare.
Neil Arya
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Search for the Hidden Punishments: An Alternative Approach to Studying Alternative Sanctions

Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2015
Most existing studies of sentencing focus on the decision of whether or not to incarcerate a convicted individual. However, many cases do not involve incarceration, and there is a considerable amount of freedom to mete out alternative sanctions as part of a sentencing decision.
Shi Yan
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Restorative Justice as an Alternative to Penal Sanctions

2019
This chapter examines restorative justice as an alternative to penal sanctions, but also as a comprehensive proposal to tackle criminality, which includes interventions in criminal prosecution and criminal proceedings as well. The goal of restorative justice is to resolve the conflict between offenders and victims by redressing the harm within a ...
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Alternative sanctions: myth and reality

European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 1994
Josine Junger-Tas
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Sanctions and Alternate Markets

Political Research Quarterly, 2015
Although much research has examined how third parties might affect the success of economic sanctions, scant research has considered the extent to which potential—rather than realized—alternate markets affect strategic behavior between sanctioning (sender) and target states prior to sanction use.
Dursun Peksen, Timothy M. Peterson
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Alternatives to Sanctions

2015
This chapter offers an evaluation of the effectiveness of soft power—the direct alternative to sanctions. Metrics for quantifying soft power are explored and their results are evaluated in the context of Middle Eastern diplomacy, post 9/11. The Middle East is examined because soft power efforts have been strongly developed there during the War on ...
Tiffany Kaschel, Nikolay Anguelov
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