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Sanctions likely to fail without diplomatic carrots

Sanctions alone against authoritarian regimes will not succeed, as they increasingly withdraw from the global economy and become self-sufficient.

Economic sanctions are a paradox. They tend to have widespread support within the sanctioning country, yet frequently fail to change the targeted country’s behaviour.

Despite 20 years of sanctions, North Korea can now strike with a nuclear weapon anywhere within the United States. It has also supplied infantry rockets and missiles to the Russian private military group Wagner.

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