Sanctions are a means to enforce either one nation's will--or the standards of the global community--without resorting to open war.

Let us hope sanctions don't fall apart as a tool, lest we end up with a much less pleasant tool: war.

Nah, there is only so much $ the CPC can throw at them.

Sanctions work best as a threat in theory, rather than a actual threat. They do work, just look at Iran. It has to be a United front though