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This volume is important. * CHOICE * A thorough and impressive work. * Ethics and International Affairs * The book effectively highlights the seemingly endless complexities faced by policy makers. * The Chronicle of Higher Education * In its eleven chapters, this edited volume reviews the various types of smart sanctions and their implementations by the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union. It will likely serve as the definitive resource on the subject for some time. * International Studies Review * A valuable contribution. * Political Studies Review * Highly relevant to current policy debates, this volume is a useful collection of suggestions for improving the effectiveness of sanctions while limiting their unwanted side effects. -- David Baldwin, Columbia University [This] book will prove useful to both the policymaker . . . and the political scientist. . . . This book is a valuable contribution to the literature on economic sanctions, which already includes numerous titles by the editors, and it solidifies their position at the leading edge of research in the field. * Journal of Peace Research *

In recent years, international attention has turned toward the use of targeted, 'smart' sanctions that minimize unintended humanitarian consequences and focus coercive pressure on responsible decision makers. Some of the world's leading sanctions experts and practitioners join together in this book to provide the first published account of the emerging theory and practice of smart sanctions. The essays examine recent uses of targeted financial sanctions, travel sanctions, and arms embargoes and offer recommendations for improving their design and implementation. Also included is an account of the targeted European Union sanctions that helped bring down the Milosevic regime in Yugoslavia, and a proposal for restructuring UN sanctions in Iraq. The result is a groundbreaking panorama of the latest developments in international sanctions policy, and a range of practical strategies for making sanctions a more humane and effective instrument of international policy.