Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America
This article addresses the consequences of economic sanctions for the protection of human rights in Latin America. The literature on sanctions and compliance informs three hypotheses, which investigate the relationship between sanctions and the level of rights protection in two groups of countries:...
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| description | This article addresses the consequences of economic sanctions for the protection of human rights in Latin America. The literature on sanctions and compliance informs three hypotheses, which investigate the relationship between sanctions and the level of rights protection in two groups of countries: those that were targeted by sanctions and those that were not. Using data from the Political Terror Scale (PTS) and from Freedom House, I find empirical evidence that sanctions do improve the level of protection in countries that were not targeted. This finding can be explained by the deterrent effect attributed to sanctions by the compliance literature, broadly interpreted. The presence of economic sanctions in a given year increases the probability of observing better human rights practices by almost 50%. These results hold for the 12 Latin American countries that were not subject to economic sanctions for the period 1976-2004. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1c2f4e3a316843af871ed33e7e3b34b42022-12-21T18:26:51ZengInstituto Brasileiro de Relações InternacionaisRevista Brasileira de Política Internacional1983-31212014-01-0157119721510.1590/0034-7329201400111S0034-73292014000100197Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin AmericaCristiane de Andrade Lucena CarneiroThis article addresses the consequences of economic sanctions for the protection of human rights in Latin America. The literature on sanctions and compliance informs three hypotheses, which investigate the relationship between sanctions and the level of rights protection in two groups of countries: those that were targeted by sanctions and those that were not. Using data from the Political Terror Scale (PTS) and from Freedom House, I find empirical evidence that sanctions do improve the level of protection in countries that were not targeted. This finding can be explained by the deterrent effect attributed to sanctions by the compliance literature, broadly interpreted. The presence of economic sanctions in a given year increases the probability of observing better human rights practices by almost 50%. These results hold for the 12 Latin American countries that were not subject to economic sanctions for the period 1976-2004.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-73292014000100197&lng=en&tlng=ensanções econômicasdireitos humanosAmérica Latina |
| spellingShingle | Cristiane de Andrade Lucena Carneiro Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional sanções econômicas direitos humanos América Latina |
| title | Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America |
| title_full | Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America |
| title_fullStr | Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America |
| title_full_unstemmed | Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America |
| title_short | Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America |
| title_sort | economic sanctions and human rights an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in latin america |
| topic | sanções econômicas direitos humanos América Latina |
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