Chapter 4: International disputes and conflicts - Sanctions

Question 1

The UK government operates a range of sanctions from what to what?

Answer 1

The UK government operates a range of sanctions from:
1. Arms embargos
2. Trade control restrictions
to
3. Defence export policies against a number of countries and terrorist organisations

Question 2

The UK government operates a range of sanctions from arms embargos and trade control restrictions to defence export policies against a number of countries and terrorist organisations.
These sanctions are normally imposed as a part of a what?

Answer 2

These sanctions are normally imposed as a part of a collective action by international bodies

Question 3

The UK government operates a range of sanctions from arms embargos and trade control restrictions to defence export policies against a number of countries and terrorist organisations.
These sanctions are normally imposed as a part of a collective action by international bodies, such as the what?

Answer 3

These sanctions are normally imposed as a part of a collective action by international bodies, such as the:
1. EU
2. NATO
Or,
3. UN

Question 4

In 2015, arms embargos or controls were being imposed on what?

Answer 4

In 2015, arms embargos or controls were being imposed on over 50 countries

Question 5

In 2015, arms embargos or controls were being imposed on over 50 countries, including what?

Answer 5

In 2015, arms embargos or controls were being imposed on over 50 countries, including:

1. Burma
2. Syria
3. Zimbabwe
4. Belarus

Question 6

The UK government operates a range of sanctions from arms embargos and trade control restrictions to defence export policies against a number of countries and terrorist organisations.
Sometimes sanctions can take the form of what?

Answer 6

Sometimes sanctions can take the form of boycotts

Question 7

Boycotts

Answer 7

Boycotts are where citizens and organisations refuse to:
1. Buy goods
Or,
2. Use services relating to a specific country, or company

Question 8

Boycotts are where citizens and organisations refuse to buy goods, or use services relating to a specific country, or company to what?

Answer 8

Boycotts are where citizens and organisations refuse to buy goods, or use services relating to a specific country, or company to:
1. Express their opposition to a policy or action
Or,
2. Achieve a desired political outcome

Question 9

The original term of boycott related to what?

Answer 9

The original term of boycott related to Captain Boycott, an Irish landowner whose tenants refused to pay their rent

Question 10

Sometimes sanctions can take the form of boycotts.

Sometimes the government undertakes a what?

Answer 10

Sometimes the government undertakes a boycott

Question 11

Sometimes the government undertakes a boycott.

Example

Answer 11

For example. in 2012, the UK government refused to send a minister to attend the football UEFA European Championship due to the actions of the then Ukraine government

Question 12

In the past, groups and citizens boycotted what?

Answer 12

In the past:
1. Groups
2. Citizens
boycotted South African goods

Question 13

Nestle, the Swiss-based company, has faced a boycott from consumers because of what?

Answer 13

Nestle, the Swiss-based company, has faced a boycott from consumers because of its policy of selling baby-feeding products in Africa

Question 14

In the past, groups and citizens boycotted South African goods, when the country was run by what?

Answer 14

In the past:
1. Groups
2. Citizens
boycotted South African goods, when the country was run by the apartheid regime