Economic sanctions are domestic penalties applied by one country (or group of countries) on another country. Economic sanctions may include various forms of trade barriers and restrictions on financial transactions. Economic sanctions are not necessarily imposed because of economic circumstances. They may also be imposed for a variety of political and social issues. Economic sanctions can call for democratic reform or a regime/leadership change to address human rights violations.
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“One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)