Employing economic sanctions in international relations after the Cold War: A study of selected models

Abstract

    In our current era, the economy is considered the largest and most important part of the international power of any state in the international community, to the point where the state’s economic weakness has become a deficit that cannot be covered by its political or military influence, and it has turned into a means of war that is superior to military means in defeating it. With the development of international relations and the decline of the idea of The use of force in settling international disputes. With the emergence of peaceful means to solve them, economic sanctions began to take a more developed form and began to be applied independently. They also became a goal in and of themselves and were no longer a supplementary measure attached to military operations.