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- Title: Economic Sanctions as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy
- Author : Helen Osieja
- Release Date : January 30, 2013
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1184 KB
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Economic sanctions have been used as an instrument of American foreign policy
ever since the Taft administration adopted the Dollar Diplomacy. This dissertation analyzes the
trade Embargo the United States imposed upon Cuba after the Revolution from different perspectives:
from the political, considering the main guidelines of American foreign policy toward Latin America,
especially during the Cold War, and from the juridical, considering different perspectives of
customary international law.
Since the embargo was imposed only after American property had been expropriated without
compensation, the dissertation analyzes the legality of expropriation, seen from the perspective of
both capital-importing and capital-exporting countries, and the legality of economic sanctions as a
legitimate peaceful reprisal. Due to the fact that the American embargo against Cuba is quasi-total,
that is, consists of a number of different economic sanctions, it is the aim of this dissertation to
analyze each of these, and finally, to assess the effectiveness of economic sanctions as an
instrument of foreign policy.
Many books and articles have been written about this very controversial embargo, almost as
old as the Cuban Revolution itself. For the Cubans, it constitutes and “economic blockade”, and a
violation of Cuba’s right to free trade; for the Americans, it is a reprisal for the confiscation of
American property. Nonetheless, since the embargo, as stated above, is not a sanction itself but a
number of different economic sanctions, it is the aim of this dissertation to analyze each of the
sanctions that comprise the embargo and its legality, according to customary international law.
Another aim of this dissertation is to prove why the American embargo against Cuba has only
enhanced Castro’s power and further centralized it. A brief chapter about the economic sanctions the
United States imposed upon Chile under President Salvador Allende and the fall of his regime serves
to compare the two cases with some similarities where sanctions were applied- in the first without
success and in the second with success. Finally, the dissertation aims to prove that a lifting of
the American embargo against Cuba is highly unlikely unless there is a change of regime in that
nation of the Caribbean.