But a refusal to cooperate with the tribunal violates international law and would prolong, rather than end, Serbia's status as a pariah nation.

Iran's actions, starting with the seizure of the American Embassy in November 1979, ensured that it became a pariah nation for years.

If the United States did not ratify the treaty, Mr. Clinton said, it would "go from leading the world to joining the company of pariah nations."

What is of real potential adverse consequence is the broader campaign to paint Israel as a pariah nation, much like apartheid South Africa.

Perhaps acts of state sponsored terrorism are only worthy of notice when they come from pariah nations like Libya or Iran.

Much of the specialized software cannot be exported legally to "pariah" nations like Libya, North Korea or Iraq.

That is why Austria has become a pariah nation.

"Otherwise," he said, "Israel will be a pariah nation."

A U.N.-approved oil squeeze on the North, a pariah nation not as self-sufficient as advertised, is talked about.

Yet now a young athlete who merely wears a warm-up suit while visiting her family in a pariah nation is banned from sports.