Altering U.S. Sanctions Policy : Final Report of the CSIS Project on Unilateral Economic Sanctions (CSIS Report)

About the Author Douglas Johnston, executive vice president of CSIS, also chairs the CSIS program on preventive diplomacy. He is the principal author of Religion, The Missing Dimension of StateCraft (Oxford/CSIS, 1994) and Foreign Policy into the 21st Century: The U.S. Leadership Challenge (CSIS, 1996). Sidney Weintraub holds the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at CSIS. He has served as deputy assistant secretary of state for international finance and development and as assistant administrator of USAID. He has written widely on international economic issues, including NAFTA. Product Description This final report of the CSIS Project on Unilateral Economic Sanctions concludes that U.S. diplomacy toward any given country should be comprehensive and continuous. Disagreements will occur, but comprehensive ruptures should be rare. Sanctions, when warranted, should be part of this total diplomacy. In short, U.S. authorities should have greater confidence in the positive influence of the messages sent by U.S. business, nongovernmental organizations, cultural programs, and the regular inflow of visitors and news.