Includes discussions on the often forgotten but essential humanitarian intentions of today's coercive, but non-violent regimes adopted regularly by the UN Security CouncilHighlights the historic undercurrents that helped to displace some armed aggression and economic warfare with UN sanctionsCovers the misconceptions and pretenses that confuse so many in today's policy decision making circles and academia who seem unaware of past trials and errors, and who measure the performance of UN sanctions only against the most advanced Western concepts of humanitarianism rather than against sustainable and truly multilateral approachesweiterlesen