The Importance of Effective Economic Sanctions
Robert J. Ward, Jr. urges activism in favor of economic sanctions that target the oppressive or rogue regime with effective pressure rather than relying on broad trading embargoes that harm civilians unnecessarily. The audience will come away learning to talk economic sanctions and to take action on them like a White House insider.
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