Smart Sanctions

Drezner is skeptical of them:

The comparative advantage of smart sanctions is that they appear tosolve several political problems for sender countries.  Smart sanctionsreally do reduce the suffering by civilian populations.  Because theyare billed as minimizing humanitarian and human rights concerns, theyreceive only muted criticism from global civil society.  Because theydo not impede significant trade flows, smart sanctions can be imposedindefinitely with minimal cost.  They clearly solve...