[frabcus]

The example usually given by pro-sanctions campaigners is South Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_during...)

[roenxi]

Do we have anything this century?

And frankly; we're talking about something kicked off by 60s US and UK, that map in that wiki article could be mistaken for one of the British Empire. Nothing's impossible but it'll take more than a wiki article to give me confidence that sanctions were the primary political force operative here or that the apartheid system was actually the thing at issue. I would chalk it up as unusual circumstances.

[graemep]

> that map in that wiki article could be mistaken for one of the British Empire.

Including most of western Europe, Japan, the whole of the US (including Alaska) etc?