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Seven Fallacies of Economic Sanctions

Despite the pain now being inflicted on Iran's economy by Trump's sanctions, the success or failure of such sanctions depends on whether they bring about regime change, or change a government’s behavior. Given the prevailing misconceptions about their rationale, it is not surprising that economic sanctions so often achieve neither goal.




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