“The Obama administration made a significant decision Monday to use targeted economic sanctions against high-tech companies abroad whose technologies empower regimes to kill their own people. The president’s executive order places restrictions on visas and travel as well as asset freezes on such companies and those who control them. These are practical – and potentially powerful – tools that can undermine the presumed success of state repression as it begins.”
Will Obama Move Thwart Murderous Regimes?
(CNN.com, 2012) By George A. Lopez
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