Canada's Use of Economic Sanctions for Political and Human Rights Purposes

ALLEN ROSEN

ABSTRACT

In the last few decades, economic sanctions have become an increasingly popular tool of national foreign policy among Western nations, including Canada. The author examines most of the major episodes in which Canada has imposed economic sanctions for political and human rights purposes, and discusses the principal legal, moral, and political issues connected with Canada's use of economic sanctions. The author concludes that despite some legal and ethical objections to the employment of economic sanctions, the sanctions policies adopted by recent Canadian governments have on the whole been defensible and successful.

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Citation: (1993) 51(1) U.T. Fac. L. Rev. 1.
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