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For the first 45 years of the United Nations' history, sanctions were only imposed twice: once against Rhodesia in 1966 and then against South Africa in 1977. [6] [7] From 1991, there was a sharp increase in their usage. [8] The UN voted for sanctions twelve times in the 1990s alone. [9]
More often, the outcome of economic sanctions is the entrenchment in power of state elites in the sanctioned country. [96] In a study of US sanctions from 1981 to 2000, political scientist Dursan Peksen found sanctions have been counterproductive, failing to improve human rights and instead leading to a further decrease in sanctioned countries ...
List of sanctioned countries (the below is not an exhaustive list): [87] Afghanistan sanctions by the US [88] China by the EU and the US. Sanctions made on arms embargo, enacted in response to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 [89] European Union arms embargo on the People's Republic of China; Hong Kong, enacted in response to the National ...
International sanctions against Syria; International sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine; International sanctions during the Russo-Ukrainian War; International sanctions against Iran; United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning the nuclear program of Iran; Iranian frozen assets; International sanctions against Iraq
The United States of America has imposed economic sanctions on multiple countries, such as France, Great Britain and Japan since the 1800s. Some of the most famous economic sanctions in the history of the United States of America include The Boston Tea Party against the British Parliament, The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act against the United States of America's trading partners and the 2002 steel ...
Countries and territories on the list have imposed or joined sanctions against Russia. [35] Western countries and others began imposing limited sanctions on Russia when it recognised the independence of self-declared Donbass republics. With the commencement of attacks on 24 February, a large number of other countries began applying sanctions ...
There have been a number of international sanctions against Iran imposed by a number of countries, especially the United States, and international entities. Iran was the most sanctioned country in the world until it was surpassed by Russia, following Russia's invasion of neighboring Ukraine in February 2022. [1]
Libya received sanctions from the United States and the European Union, while the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Gaddafi. The U.N. Security Council authorized a no-fly zone over Libya after the Battle of Ajdabiya , and the NATO-led coalition launched air strikes against the Libyan Air Force .