Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you both for sharing your wisdom and experience with us today.
I have a question for you, Professor Nossal. You suggested that sanctions tend to be more successful when placed on liberal democratic states rather than authoritarian regimes. For example, in your article “Liberal-democratic regimes, international sanctions, and global governance”, you wrote:
...the record of sanctions failures shows clearly that military dictatorships...human-rights abusing governments, and indeed all regimes with illiberal forms, generally find it easy to resist the punitive impact of sanctions.
What's your take on this?