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UNINA9910787444803321 |
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Early Bryan R. |
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Busted Sanctions : Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail |
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Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2015 |
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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Economic sanctions, American |
Economic sanctions |
Electronic Books |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What are Sanctions Busters? -- 3. Assessing the Consequences of Sanctions Busting -- 4. For Profits or Politics? -- 5. Sanctions Busting for Profits -- 6. Assessing Which Third-Party States Become Trade-Based Sanctions Busters -- 7. Sanctions Busting for Politics -- 8. Implications and Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals less than a third of the time they are imposed. The costs of these failed sanctions policies can be significant for the states that impose them, their targets, and the other countries they affect. Explaining economic sanctions' high failure rate therefore constitutes a vital endeavor for academics and policy-makers alike. Busted Sanctions seeks to provide this explanation, and reveals that the primary cause of this failure is third-party spoilers, or sanctions busters, who undercut sanctioning efforts by providing their targets with extensive foreign aid or sanctions-busting trade. In quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing over 60 years of U.S. economic sanctions, Bryan Early reveals that both types of third-party sanctions busters have played a major role in undermining U.S. economic sanctions. Surprisingly, his analysis also reveals that the |
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United States' closest allies are often its sanctions' worst enemies. The book offers the first comprehensive explanation for why different types of sanctions busting occur and reveals the devastating effects it has on economic sanctions' chances of success. |
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UNINA9910346750203321 |
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Maria Kambanaros |
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Developmental, Modal, and Pathological Variation Linguistic and Cognitive Profiles for Speakers of Linguistically Proximal Languages and Varieties |
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1 online resource (179 p.) |
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Frontiers Research Topics |
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One significant area of research in the multifaceted field of bilingualism over the past two decades has been the demonstration, validation, and account of the so-called 'bilingual advantage'. This refers to the hypothesis that bilingual speakers have advanced abilities in executive functions and other domains of human cognition. Such cognitive benefits of bilingualism have an impact on the processing mechanisms active during language acquisition in a way that results in language variation. Within bilingual populations, the notion of language proximity (or linguistic distance) is also of key importance for deriving variation. In addition, sociolinguistic factors can invest the process of language development and its outcome with an additional layer of complexity, such as schooling, language, dominance, competing motivations, or the emergence of mesolectal varieties, which blur the boundaries of grammatical variants. This is particularly relevant for diglossic speech communities-bilectal, bidialectal, or bivarietal speakers. The defined goal of the present Research Topic is to address |
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whether the bilingual advantage extends to such speakers as well. Thus, 'Linguistic and Cognitive Profiles for Speakers of Linguistically Proximal Languages and Varieties' become an important matter within 'Developmental, Modal, and Pathological Variation'. |
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