An extreme diplomatic measure, what is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it, called?
Economic sanctions sanctions can be used for achieving domestic and international purposes. An embargo (from the Spanish "embargo", meaning hindrance, obstruction, etc. in a general sense, a trading ban in trade terminology and literally "distraint" in juridic parlance) is the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country/state or a group of countries. Embargoes are considered strong diplomatic measures imposed in an effort, by the imposing country, to elicit a given national-interest result from the country on which it is imposed. Embargoes are generally considered legal barriers to trade, not to be confused with blockades, which are often
Complete partial order Complete partial order In mathematics, the phrase complete partial order is variously used to refer to at least three similar, but distinct, classes of partially ordered sets, characterized by particular completeness properties. Complete partial orders play a central role in theoretical computer science, in denotational semantics and domain theory. A complete partial order abbreviated cpo can, depending on context, refer to any of the following concepts. Note that "complete partial order" is never used to mean a poset in which "all" subsets have suprema; the terminology complete lattice is used for this concept. Requiring the existence of directed suprema can