UN SANCTIONS AGAINST THE FRY: SOME MORAL ASPECTS OF A COERCIVE DIPLOMACY FORM
UN SANCTIONS AGAINST THE FRY: SOME MORAL ASPECTS OF A COERCIVE DIPLOMACY FORM

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with UN economic sanctions against the FRY as the first in a series of forms of international intervention in the ex-Yugoslav crisis. In the first section, the author presents statistic indicators of the effects of sanctions on all subsystems of the Serbian society, corroborating the viewpoint that they were not more humane, but only, as it was observed by analysts, less noisy and less expensive means of coercion than application of armaments. In the following part of the paper the author concentrates on ethical aspects of this diplomatic instrument pointing out that it represents a form of collective punishment and as such being incompatible to the ethical principle of individual responsibility, i.e. attributability of responsibility to an individual for his own behaviour.

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