“If sanctions planning and structure cannot meet these operational and humanitarian evidence-based standards, then forgoing the application of sanctions is the appropriate policy choice. Only with such foresight, critical analysis, and ethical commitment to the innocent will sanctions imposition be more restrained, as it should, within the U.S. economic foreign policy arsenal.”
Sanctions will kill and rarely win when implemented with ‘full force’
(Responsible Statecraft, 2021) By George A. Lopez
