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To: Elroy who wrote (221131)2/28/2005 1:13:01 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1587859
 
The issue with carrots vs. sticks in the ME and NK is rewarding rogue nations for being less bad (that's a carrot). In other words, if they just live up to their treaties and obligations you give them food aid and technology transfer, a form of nation to nation welfare. All the countries that currently have sanctions on them didn't have sanctions at one point, and had the "carrot" that China now has (which is just being treated normally, hardly a carrot), and they screwed up and got punished.

First of all, sanctions do work [see Libya and Iraq]. Secondly, an example of a carrot would be providing low interest development loans or outright grants in return for free elections at the local level. Another is what the EU is offering Turkey; membership in return for Turkey stopping its human rights violations.

And China has given up communism to get capitalism, that's not really even an issue in the ME where most countries are capitalistic already. If you want to force a dictator to adopt democracy, you've gotta threaten to kill him. Any dictator will gladly adopt capitalism (given some carrots) because he gets a disproportionate share of the wealth that will be created. You're confusing economic change with political change.

China was just an example of a country transitioning to capitalism because capitalism is looking very good to non capitalistic nations. Forget China!

ted