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Chile
Chile has set aside the Pinochet years, and now has a stable democracy and a successful economyChile is remarkably narrow: 4,329 kilometres long and on average no more than 180 kilometres wide. From ...
Commonwealth
The term ‘Imperial Commonwealth’ was first used formally during the First World War to refer collectively to Britain and the self-governing dominions of the British Empire. After the war, Canada ...
economic sanctions Reference library
Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
This is not a term of art, but was widely used during the time of the League of Nations to
economic, social and cultural rights
A subcategory of human rights concerned with material well-being and social capacity (e.g. rights to work, health and education). Recognised in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Arts 22–27, ...
Economics of Peace
Economics is the study of the systems of production, distribution, exchange, and consumption through which societies provide material goods and services to their populations. There are three ...
Economic Sanctions Reference library
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
For decades, the use of economic sanctions to halt human rights abuses and political killings by governments or to foster
embargo
A ban on some or all of the trade with one or more countries. A trade embargo is a form of economic sanction. Prominent examples include the continuing US embargo against Cuba and the former ...
Geo-economic Rivalries Between States
Relations between states since the end of the Cold War have been shaped by an increased economic competition. Ideological rivalries between Western liberal and communist collectivist models of ...
International Labour Organization
(ILO)A specialized agency of the United Nations that deals with labour issues. It seeks to promote social justice and the international recognition of human and labour rights.http://www.ilo.org The ...
Iraq
Post-war Iraq descended into chaos but has now achieved a degree of political stabilityThe heart of Iraq, forming around one-third of the territory, is the alluvial and often marshy basin of the ...
Prevention of Escalation
In pragmatic, political, economic, and human terms, it is much less costly to prevent violent conflict before it starts—or even to halt it once it is under way—than it is ...
sanction
(Latin sanctionem, act of decreeing or ordaining)An autoantonym (word with two opposite meanings), with both meanings derived from the sense of authoritative application of law.(1) Sanction as legal ...
Sanctions, Economic Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
Economic sanctions have become an increasingly common tool of international policy making. Sanctions have been utilized to achieve a broad
Sierra Leone
Former British west African colony and protectorate. British anti‐slavery campaigners established a home for freed slaves in Freetown in 1797. The settlement became a British colony in 1808 and a ...
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