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AN ETHICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE USE OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AS A TOOL OF FOREIGN POLICY
Author(s) -
Rarick Charles A.,
Duchatelet Martine
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2008.00823.x
Subject(s) - contractualism , utilitarianism , consequentialism , deontological ethics , economic justice , sanctions , law and economics , categorical imperative , ethical theory , positive economics , economics , mill , political science , sociology , public economics , law , epistemology , philosophy , morality , engineering , mechanical engineering
This paper is the third in a series of articles that examines the shortcomings of economic sanctions. Drawing on Mill's utilitarianism, Kant's categorical imperative and Rawls's theory of justice, the conceptual frameworks of consequentialism, deontology and contractualism are used to demonstrate the unethical nature of this increasingly popular instrument of foreign policy.