Blockade

A blockade (of the Dutch blokhuis ) consists in preventing a country, but also a city, an area or any other entity, to communicate with outside. The purpose of this action is to make fold this entity with the will of that which imposes the blockade.

The blockade is very often economic, in this case one speaks about Embargo, but can be also total, one speaks then about seat.

In the field of the Diplomacy, the installation of a blockade without the agreement of the Safety advice of the United Nations against a Sovereign state is regarded as an act of Guerre.

See too

blockade
  • continental Blockade (of the Napoleonean wars tallies)
  • Blocus of Berlin
  • Boycott
  • Crise of the missiles of Cuba of 1962, where the blockade was employed by US Navy to make pressure on Cuba.

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