Economic Sanctions as an American Foreign Policy Instrument The Case of Iraq

Abstract

The main concern of this dissertation is to examine the US sanctions in Iraq and mainly economic sanctions as a part of its foreign policy which were imposed either by the US directly or by the UN. The main conclusion of this dissertation is that the US economic sanctions on Iraq and their consequences offers an insight to the implementation of sanctions as a key tool in the US foreign policy as a whole. On one hand, to reach this conclusion the dissertation starts with the US foreign policy history and the history of economic sanctions and their utilities then an examination of the US economic sanctions on Iraq and the conflict between the US and Iraq from 1991 to 2003. While on the other hand the work examines the outcome of sanctions on both parties, the ‘sender’ presented in the Unites States and the ‘receiver’ presented in Iraq.