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Lightning Rods Rather Than Light Switches: Arab Economic Sanctions against Canada in 1979

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2002

Norrin M. Ripsman  and
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Norrin M. Ripsman
Affiliation:
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec
Jean-Marc F. Blanchard
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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The literature on economic sanctions consists of a series of studies assessing whether sanctions ''worked'' or not. Very little has been written on the factors that make economic sanctions more effective at achieving their intended purposes. This article examines the threatened 1979 Arab world boycott of Canada after Prime Minister Joe Clark announced the government's intention to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. After determining that sanctions played a contributing role in motivating a Canadian policy reversal, it generates hypotheses from this misunderstood case about the political and economic factors that can contribute to the success of economic sanctions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 151 - 174
Copyright
© The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique

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