| Description | Two folders of press-cuttings, telex reports and digest bulletins relating to the sanctions placed on Iraq during the occupation of Kuwait. Topics covered include the blocking of Iraqi ships in the Gulf, international responses to - and statements on - the embargo, copies of the Statutory Instruments on the UN Sanctions (August 1990) and Department of Trade and Industry press releases, articles from The Times, Lloyd's List, the Independent, International Herald Tribune, Arab News, Financial Times and Daily Telegraph on different aspects of the sanctions and their effects, an 18-page news release by the Institute for International Economics (20 November 1990) with an accompanying text summarising a work by Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Schott & Kimberly Ann Elliott, 'Economic Sanctions Reconsidered', plus an issue of Middle East Executive Reports (September 1990) devoted to the Iraqi Invasion and its effects on the oil market, trade, embargoes and sanctions. |