There is growing policy consensus in Washington and other Western capitals that economic
sanctions are powerful tools to cope with major foreign policy crises. Are sanctions …

This essay reviews the literature and origins of the targeted sanctions framework. The
development of smart sanctions has solved many of the political problems that prior efforts at …

What drives politics in dictatorships? Milan W. Svolik argues authoritarian regimes must
resolve two fundamental conflicts. Dictators face threats from the masses over which they …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy
across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century?
The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was …

Index 205 vii this is a book about the use of sanctions in foreign policy, written by a
practitioner largely for practitioners and those operating in foreign policy more generally. It …

This article introduces a modified and updated version of the authoritarian regime type
dataset first introduced by Hadenius and Teorell. The basic logic and merits of this dataset is …

What determines the consequences of economic sanctions? Is there a common explanation
for these consequences? This article provides a comprehensive review of the fragmented …

The second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century have
witnessed an unprecedented expansion of one-party autocracies. One-party regimes have …