Sanctioned Behavior
Horns of a Dilemma
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Economic Isolation Leads Powers to Surrender
Economic isolation leads powers to go for riskier strategies than they might otherwise do. In the direct impact mechanism, those shortages directly affect the military lhet us less capability and leaders decide to attack in order to gain greater resources. In the political impact mechanism,Those shortages affect the domestic political situation at home and lead to threats to the regime's stability. And in order to try and continue the regimes a future, leaders might choose to gamble for resurrection - to go big or go home. This is one of the most important questions about economic isolation to day, and how and how effective it will be.
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