{"id":12098,"date":"2018-08-20T00:23:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12098"},"modified":"2018-08-20T00:23:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:23:15","slug":"do-us-sanctions-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12098","title":{"rendered":"Do US sanctions work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"86\">\n<p>Punishing its enemies economically, when stopping short of armed force, has long been a favoured American way of achieving foreign policy goals.<\/p>\n<p>Sanctions have been around for decades, but came to the fore after the 9\/11 attacks on the US in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>They are now again present when diplomacy doesn&#8217;t work. President Donald Trump has been imposing them more widely and more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>The latest were over Turkey&#8217;s detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson, which has triggered one of the most serious rifts with a NATO ally in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Those being targetted by the US are hitting back with their own sanctions, some on the same level and scale.<\/p>\n<p>The list of countries affected is long. But do the sanctions serve any purpose? And who gets hurt the most?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Hoda Abdel-Hamid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Richard Weitz &#8211; director of the Center for Political-Military Analysis at the Hudson Institute<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Marandi &#8211; head of North American studies graduate programme at the University of Tehran<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Preble &#8211; vice president for defence and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punishing its enemies economically, when stopping short of armed force, has long been a favoured American way of achieving foreign policy goals. Sanctions have been around for decades, but came to the fore after the 9\/11 attacks on the US in 2001. They are now again present when diplomacy doesn&#8217;t work. President Donald Trump has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}