Abstract
The purpose of this Article is to convince policymakers that the achievement of an interim nuclear agreement with Iran should not be seen as a mandate on the effectiveness of economic sanctions, and that further use of economic sanctions is not worth the public costs to targeted nations or the United States. First, this Article will explain the basic uses and legal provisions for economic sanctions. Second, this Article will detail the public costs that economic sanctions can inflict on the United States and on the nations it targets. Lastly, this Article will explain the interim nuclear agreement with Iran, and why the apparent success of the economic sanctions imposed on Iran do not justify the continued use of economic sanctions.
Recommended Citation
Nicholas Colby Watson Wolfe,
Nuclear Chain Reaction: Why Economic Sanctions are Not Worth the Public Costs,
27 Fla. J. Int'l L.
(2021).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/fjil/vol27/iss1/1