Helgar målet alltid medlen? En etisk analys av de ekonomiska sanktionerna mot Sydafrika och Haiti och dess humanitära konsekvenser.
Ethics,Economic Sanctions,South Africa,Haiti,Just-sanctions theorySocial sciencesSamhällsvetenskaperPolitical and administrative sciencesStatsvetenskapFörvaltningskunskapSocial SciencesLaw and Political Science
In this bachelor thesis my main purpose is to examine the ethical legitimacy of economic sanctions, by assessing the humanitarian consequences this type of actions create. I will do this by a closer examination of the two historic cases of South Africa and Haiti. The humanitarian consequences will then be measured against my chosen theories, to help answer my main questions. The theories I have been working with is the broader interpretation of the just-war theory; the just-sanctions theory, and two major metaethical theories.The result I found after the finished examination of the chosen cases, are that economic sanctions and morality doesn?t necessarily match. This is not to say that they don?t, my examination showed that economic sanctions definitely can be ethical. They just have to be well implemented and humanitarian assistance and aid must be ready to employ in the target countries to minimize the humanitarian suffering. I found that in the case of South Africa and Haiti the humanitarian assistance lacked and that this caused a great deal of suffering for the citizens.