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27 Fla. J. Int'l L. 1 (2015)
Nuclear Chain Reaction: Why Economic Sanctions Are Not Worth the Public Costs

handle is hein.journals/fjil27 and id is 7 raw text is: NUCLEAR CHAIN REACTION: WHY ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ARE NOT WORTH THE PUBLIC COSTS Nicholas Colby Watson Wolfe* I. IN TRO DUCTION ............................................................................... 1 II. THE LEGAL FOUNDATION OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ................. 3 A. The Purposes of Economic Sanctions ................................. 4 B. The Legality of Economic Sanctions .................................... 6 III. THE PUBLIC COSTS OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS IN GENERAL ........... 9 A. The Public Costs to the United States as a Sending State ....... 9 B. The Humanitarian Costs to the Target State's Public ..... 12 IV. THE CASE OF ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON IRAN ......................... 14 A. The Interim Nuclear Agreement ......................................... 14 B. Economic Sanctions Are Mistakenly Credited With M otivating Iran to Negotiate ................................................... 15 C. The Economic Costs to the United States Caused by the Imposition of Economic Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran .......................................................... 18 D. The Humanitarian Costs to the Iranian Public .................. 19 V . CONCLUSION ............................................................................. 21 The conventional wisdom is often wrong.' -Steven D. Levitt I. INTRODUCTION In October 2013, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry wrote a scathing argument in Foreign Policy decrying Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's use of starvation as a weapon of war.2 * Juris Doctor, Hamline University School of Law, May 2015. Bachelor of Arts in Reconciliation Studies, Bethel University, December 2011. 1 would like to thank my friends and family for their edits and their support during law school. Particularly, I would like to thank Steve Wolfe, Teresa Wolfe, Nate Wolfe, Jamie Wolfe, Idona Wolfe, Micah Duke, Katie Cherrier, and Lynn Cherrier for their help during my writing process. 1. STEVEN D. LEVITT & STEPHEN J. DUBNER, FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING 13 (2005). 2. John F. Kerry, Assad's War of Starvation, FOREIGN POL'Y (Oct. 25 2013). 1

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