Why are multilateral institutions absent from some areas of international relations?
Governments have not concluded regulatory policy agreements on tactical nuclear weapons …

The growth in economic sanctions has been matched by a surge in scholarly research. This
article reviews the current state of scholarship on economic sanctions to see where the …

International sanctions have become the instrument of choice for policymakers dealing with
a variety of different challenges to international peace and security. This is the first …

Geopolitical crises, and economic sanctions, in particular, have created considerable
disturbance in natural resource markets. This study focuses on a significant consequence of …

Winner of the THESEUS promising award for Research on European Integration 2011.
Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have …

This is the golden age of economic statecraft—and the study of economic statecraft. This is
in large part due to the evolution of economic coercion from trade embargoes to targeted …

Why do economic sanctions sometimes succeed, but often fail, to produce a policy change?
The authors argue that the effect of economic punishment is conditional on a state's political …

Building on the rationalist literature on sanctions, this article argues that economic and
political sanctions are a successful tool of nonproliferation policy, but that selection effects …

The costs of military ventures and concern for human rights has increased the importance of
international sanctions in the twenty fist century, but our knowledge is still limited in this area …

Why do democracy protests emerge in some countries at certain times, but not in others?
Why do governments accommodate these protests, undertaking sweeping reforms in some …