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Gibbons analyzes the ruinous three-year trade embargo imposed on Haiti in response to the September 1991 coup d'etat to President Aristide's return to office in October 1994. She dissects the multidimensional impact of sanctions on Haitian society by examining the economic devastation and social dislocation that they provoked, despite the mitigation of humanitarian exemptions consistently granted by the Security Council. Gibbons also examines the counterproductive, unpredictable effects that sanctions have had on Haiti's nascent democratic institutions and processes. Drawing on contemporary research of noted academics and international legal experts, this analysis places Haiti's experience of sanctions in a wider context. From the Haiti case, Gibbons draws conclusions about the utility of comprehensive sanctions as an instrument for the advancement of democracy and human rights and recommends measures that policymakers may find better suited to achieving these objectives.

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Elizabeth Gibbons has written a thoughtful and penetrating analysis of one of the most difficult moral dilemmas facing the international community: should sanctions be used to try to advance democracy if it definitely harms poor people? Her book makes a major contribution, both in identifying the many effects of sanctions on a regime and its people, and in recommending the replacement of comprehensive sanctions with targeted instruments. -Robert Pastor Professor of Political Science, Emory University Former Director, Latin American Program, The Carter Center

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ELIZABETH D. GIBBONS is Deputy Director of UNICEF's Office of Emergency Programs./e Ms. Gibbons's career in social development and humanitarian affairs has spanned close to 20 years, 15 of which have been spent as an international civil servant with UNICEF.

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