ABSTRACT
Comprehensive sanctions employ full trade embargoes against the target of sanctions and involve wide-sweeping bans on trade, diplomatic relations, and or other relationships between target and sender. Targeted sanctions impose embargoes on specific items or restrictions on a person or on groups of specific people. This thesis addresses the use of both comprehensive and targeted sanctions in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Liberia. The thesis concludes that comprehensive sanctions are more successful in achieving the sender’s goals than are targeted sanctions; especially in the areas of containing a target militarily and economically.
