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Economic Coercion as an Instrument of Foreign Policy: U.S. Economic Measures Against Cuba and the Dominican Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Anna P. Schreiber
Anna P. Schreiber
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University
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The application of economic sanctions against Rhodesia and the results of that effort raise the question of the effectiveness of economic coercion as an instrument of foreign policy. A review of U.S. economic coercion against Cuba, in effect since June 1960, and against the Dominican Republic during the period 1960–1962 may be timely and instructive. By exploring the steps leading to the application of U.S. economic coercion, its objectives, and its concrete impact on the target states it may be possible to develop some useful generalizations about the role of economic weapons as tools of foreign policy.

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World Politics , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , April 1973 , pp. 387 - 413
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1973

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