Introduction

Thereis a common perception that sanctions don't work. While i am here to tell you that sanctions don’t work, what never, well, hardly ever. Of the six times they did supposedly work, it was because a major power had tons of leverage against a wee foe. South africa could sanction lesoto, because south africa totally surrounds and could basically lay siege to le soto. Couple of those other six really don't count as sanctions either. By my accounting, the list of the quo sanctions that hardly ever worked was overall so unimpressive that i have to go back to the original thesis, sanctions don't works, hardly always.