The Enduring US-led Arms Embargo on China

An Objectives–Implementation Analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID12423016
AuthorsYoram Evron (0000-0002-1933-4858, The University of Haifa, Israel, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume28
Issue120
Pages995-1010
Publication date2019-03-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1067-0564 • E-ISSN: 1469-9400
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10670564.2019.1594099
OpenAlexW2940997705
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Since the end of the Cold War, arms embargoes have typically been imposed on isolated and relatively weak states. Exceptionally, the 1989 US-led arms embargo on China is imposed on an influential world power that has various means to deal with it. Moreover, it has so far failed to change the behavior of and reduce arms imports by the targeted state—two basic parameters of arms embargo success. Attempting to explain the endurance of China arms embargo and building on the vast literature of international sanctions, the article closely examines the embargo’s changing goals, costs, and implementation over the years. Arguing that the evolvement of these three components has kept the embargo cost-effective, the article enhances our understanding of the effectiveness of US China policy and concurrently illustrates the capacity of international sanctions to expose the true goal hierarchy, means, and political processes that underlie foreign policies

China · Political science · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration

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