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This study surveys theories of international sanctions and offers analyses of the effect of sanctions on apartheid South Africa. Topics cultural isolation, oil and military embargoes, trade boycotts, financial sanctions and divestment, consequences for black South Africans, and regional effects.
List of contents
Acknowledgements Contributors Abbreviations List of Maps List of Tables Maps 1-5 PART I: INTRODUCTION Trump Card or Theatre: An Introduction to Two Sanctions Debates; N.C.Crawford How Sanctions Work: A Framework for Analysis; N.C.Crawford and A.Klotz PART II: STRATEGIC SANCTIONS How Arms Embargoes Work; N.C.Crawford Sanctions and the Nuclear Industry; D.Fig The Costs of Oil Sanctions; N.C.Crawford PART III: ECONOMIC SANCTIONS The US Divestment Movement; M.Voorhes Disinvestment by Multinational Corporations; M.P.Mangaliso The Political Economy of Financial Sanction; X.Carim, A.Klotz and O.Lbleu 'Sanctions Hurt but Apartheid Kills!': the Sanctions Campaign and Black Workers; T.Maloka PART IV: SOCIAL SANCTIONS Diplomatic Isolation; A.Klotz 'Not Cricket': the Effects and Effectiveness of the Sports Boycott; D.R.Black Cultural Boycotts and Political Change; N.A.Mangaliso PART V: IMPLICATIONS Regional Dimensions of Sanctions; G.M.Khadiagala Making Sanctions Work: Comparative Lessons; A.Klotz Chronology Index
About the author
DAVID R. BLACK Associate Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University
XAVIER CARIM Deputy Director of Multilateral Trade Relations at the Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa
DAVID FIG teaches sociology at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
GILBERT M. KHADIAGALA Associate Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
OLIVIER LEBLEU financial consultant for several South African corporations
NOMAZENGELE A. MAGALISO Assistant Professor of Sociology at Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts
TSHIDISO MALOKA Lecturer in History at the University of Cape Town
MZAMO P. MANGALISO Associate Professor in the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
MEG VOORHES Director of the South Africa Service at the Investor Responsibility Research Center
Summary
How Sanctions Work surveys theories of international sanctions and offers detailed analyses of the effect of sanctions on apartheid South Africa.
