TY - BOOK ID - 32935741 TI - Coercive Sanctions and International Conflicts : A Sociological Theory PY - 2018 SN - 9781138697171 PB - Abingdon, UK : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - SANCTIONS (INTERNATIONAL LAW)--SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS KW - ECONOMIC SANCTIONS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32935741 AB - Instead of asking whether sanctions work, this book addresses a more basic question : how do coercive international sanctions work, and more substantially, what are the social conditions within sanctions conflicts that are conducive to either cooperation or non-cooperation ? Arguing that coercive sanctions and international conflicts are relational, socially constructed facts, that author explores the (de)-escalation of sanctions conflicts from a sociological perspective. Whether sanctions are conducive to either cooperation or non-cooperation depends on the one hand on the meaning they acquire for opponents as inducing decisions upon mutual conflict. On the other hand, negative sanctions, positive sanctions or their combination each contribute differently to the way in which opponents perceive conflict, and to its potential transformation. Thus, it is premature to 'predict' the political effectiveness of sanctions simply based on economic impact. The book presents analyses of the sanctions conflicts between China and Taiwan and over Iran's nuclear program, illustrating how negative sanctions, positive sanctions and their combination made a distinct contribution to conflict development and prospects for cooperation. ER -