How Sanctions Work surveys theories of international sanctions and offers detailed analyses of the effect of sanctions on apartheid South Africa. Chapters by respected international experts cover cultural isolation, oil and military embargoes, trade boycotts, financial sanctions and divestment, consequences for black South Africans, and regional effects. The book shows how sanctions both directly and indirectly hurt the apartheid regime while in some cases offering succour to the anti-apartheid movement.

DAVID R. BLACK Associate Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University XAVIER CARIM Deputy Director of Multilateral Trade Relations at the Department of Trade and Industry, South Africa DAVID FIG teaches sociology at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg GILBERT M. KHADIAGALA Associate Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University OLIVIER LEBLEU financial consultant for several South African corporations NOMAZENGELE A. MAGALISO Assistant Professor of Sociology at Westfield State College, Westfield, Massachusetts TSHIDISO MALOKA Lecturer in History at the University of Cape Town MZAMO P. MANGALISO Associate Professor in the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst MEG VOORHES Director of the South Africa Service at the Investor Responsibility Research Center