Instructions: Write approximately 5-7 double spaced pages on the following topic. Provide standard 1 inch margins and use an 11 or 12 point font. Remain focused upon the topic and use your own words. The use of secondary sources is discouraged. If used, a complete footnote is required. See examples below.[1] Quotes from the assigned texts should only serve to illustrate your point. A parenthetical reference for quotes from our readings is acceptable. For example, “Peace includes concord and adds something thereto” (Aquinas, Q29, i). Quotes 3 lines or longer should be single spaced and indented.
You are to provide a thoughtful and engaged response to the topic below which demonstrates an understanding of the debate at hand. Within your response, you must demonstrate your understanding of the key issues and arguments in our readings and our class discussions of them. Your paper MUST have a thesis and a successful paper will provide supporting arguments that are rooted in the texts we have read.
1. Critics of targeted economic sanctions like Joy Gordon and Dursun Peksun base their arguments upon ethical standards found in just war theory, e.g. discriminate targeting, proportionality, and likelihood of success or effectiveness. In addition, they raise ethical questions surrounding the lack of due process for those individuals targeted with sanctions. Taking into consideration the counter-arguments from George A. Lopez, which of the above ethical concerns do you find to be the most compelling arguments against targeted sanctions (if any)? Can targeted sanctions be morally justified nonetheless as either the least bad option or as the fairest way to distribute inevitable harms (as Pattison argues)?