The traditional understanding of international economic sanctions is based on an instrumental rationality, with the purpose of changing the behavior of the target country.

关于国际经济制裁的传统认识是建立在工具理性的基础之上，据此认为其目标就是要改变目标国的某种行为。

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Economic sanctions are a type of conflict behavior among actors on the international stage.

经济制裁是国际行为体之间一种常见的冲突行为。

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But despite economic stagnation, technological limitations and international sanctions, its conventional forces can't be discounted, if only because of their size.

尽管经济困难重重、技术进步缓慢、国际进行制裁，它的陆军仅仅因为规模庞大这一条就不能加以忽视。

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Many North Korea experts see Friday's far more modest wage proposal in the context of a recent thaw Pyongyang's attitude toward the South possibly aimed at boosting economic assistance as the North feels the pinch of international sanctions.

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Obama also said he believes that the international economic sanctions, some of the "strongest" ever imposed against Tehran, are having an effect on the country.

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We and our European partners agree that path will lead to international isolation and progressively stronger political and economic sanctions.

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