TY  - JOUR
TI  - Successful or counterproductive coercion?: the effect of international sanctions on conflict intensity
AU  - Hultman, Lisa
AU  - Peksen, Dursun
PY  - 2017
LA  - eng
KW  - Bürgerkrieg
KW  - Verlauf
KW  - Konflikt
KW  - Intensität
KW  - Eskalation
KW  - Kriegsopfer
KW  - Bedeutung
KW  - Rolle
KW  - Internationalisierung
KW  - Innerstaatlicher Konflikt
KW  - Sanktion
KW  - Vergleich
KW  - Wirtschaftssanktion
KW  - Waffenembargo
KW  - Statistische Analyse
KW  - Afrika
KW  - Konfliktverlauf
KW  - Konfliktintensität
KW  - Konflikteskalation
KW  - Kriegstote
KW  - Bedeutung/Rolle
KW  - Internationalisierung innerstaatlicher Konflikte
KW  - Sanktionen
KW  - Wirtschaftssanktionen
KW  - Africa
KW  - Civil wars
KW  - Course of conflicts
KW  - Intensity of conflicts
KW  - Escalation of conflicts
KW  - War dead
KW  - Importance/role
KW  - Internationalization of intrastate conflicts
KW  - Sanctions
KW  - Comparison
KW  - Economic sanctions
KW  - Arms embargoes
KW  - Statistical analysis
AB  - Despite the frequent use of economic and military-specific sanctions against countries affected by civil conflicts, little is known about the possible impact that these coercive tools have on conflict dynamics. This article examines how threats and imposition of international sanctions affect the intensity of civil conflict violence. We formulate and test two competing views on the possible effect of economic and military-specific sanctions on conflict dynamics by combining data on fatalities in battle-related violence in all internal armed conflicts in Africa from 1989 to 2005 with data on economic sanctions and arms embargoes. The results indicate that threats of economic sanction and arms embargo are likely to increase the intensity of conflict violence. Similarly, imposed economic sanctions are likely to contribute to the escalation of conflict violence. Imposed arms embargoes, on the other hand, are likely to reduce conflict violence. We conclude that international sanctions appear to be counterproductive policy tools in mitigating the human cost of civil conflicts unless they are in the form of imposed arms embargoes attempting to limit the military capacity of the warring parties.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002715603453
DO  - 10.1177/0022002715603453
T2  - The journal of conflict resolution: journal of the Peace Science Society (International)
VL  - 61
IS  - 6
SN  - 1552-8766
SN  - 0022-0027
SP  - 1315-1339
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/kxp-156228469X
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -