CIAO DATE: 06/2009
January 2008
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
One of the first measures contemplated by the United Nations when confronting a new security crisis is to institute an arms embargo. Since the end of the Cold War - which liberated international action from the constraints of major power confrontation - there have been 27 such embargoes.
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