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The 26 pages that link to Economic sanctions, each with the reason it gives.

• Collective securityRelated: They offer members a shared response short of military force.

• DiplomacyCompared with: Sanctions exert pressure that can accompany diplomatic efforts or obstruct them.

• Coup d'étatRelated: Foreign governments may impose sanctions to pressure coup leaders to restore constitutional rule.

• Diplomatic recognitionRelated: States may pair non-recognition with measures that deny a contested authority practical benefits.

• United States foreign policyBroader topic: Sanctions apply economic pressure without requiring direct military force.

• AnnexationRelated: States may use sanctions to oppose an annexation or raise its costs.

• Covert operationCompared with: Sanctions are typically public instruments of pressure rather than deniable action.

• Gunboat diplomacyCompared with: Sanctions exert economic pressure without requiring warships to threaten force at sea.

• SmugglingRelated: Sanctions create controls that illicit trade networks may try to circumvent.

• Desmond TutuRelated: Tutu urged international economic pressure to compel South Africa to end apartheid.

• Economic statecraftBroader topic: Sanctions are the most direct coercive instrument in economic statecraft.

• Import quotaRelated: Import restrictions can serve strategic aims beyond protecting domestic producers.

• Trade policyRelated: Their effectiveness and humanitarian costs remain contested in trade policy.

• Economic imperialismRelated: Sanctions use control over economic access to pressure another government without territorial conquest.

• Economic warfareBroader topic: Sanctions are a central tool for restricting an adversary’s trade, finance, or access to assets.

• Non-interventionismRelated: Sanctions raise a boundary question: whether nonmilitary pressure is also impermissible intervention.

• Women's International League for Peace and FreedomRelated: The league has debated sanctions as a nonmilitary response to aggression and injustice.

• Territorial disputeRelated: States may use sanctions to oppose territorial changes or pressure a claimant.

• Trade (commerce)Compared with: Sanctions deliberately obstruct or condition trade for political purposes.

• International political economyRelated: They turn access to economic networks into a tool of foreign policy.

• UnilateralismBroader topic: A state can impose sanctions on its own, without securing a multilateral mandate.

• GeoeconomicsBroader topic: Sanctions turn access to markets and finance into coercive leverage.

• Hard powerRelated: Sanctions apply coercive pressure by restricting access to markets, money, or goods.

• Idealism in international relationsRelated: Collective pressure can be used against aggression without immediately resorting to armed force.

• World economyRelated: Sanctions use cross-border economic ties as instruments of foreign policy.

• Economy of the Middle EastRelated: Sanctions have constrained commerce and investment in countries including Iran and Syria.