According to Leyton-Brown in World Politics economic sanctions, seeing that this is the form it usually takes on, are "deliberate government actions to inflict economic deprivation on a target state or society, through the limitation or cessation of customary economic relations". ... According to Hufbauer et al there have been 120 episodes of foreign policy sanctions since World War I, 104 of which were enacted since World War II. ...

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