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 …

Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, we examine the evolution of economic sanctions in
the post-World War II era and reflect on the lessons that could be drawn from their features …

This paper studies the impact of international sanctions on environmental performance by
using the panel fixed effect model for 22 sanctioned states over the period 2002–2016 while …

Powerful countries like the United States regularly employ economic sanctions as a tool for
promoting their foreign policy interests. Yet this foreign policy tool has an uninspiring track …

This paper examines whether economic sanctions destabilize authoritarian rulers. We argue
that the effect of sanctions is mediated by the type of authoritarian regime against which …

We review a number of developments and trends in the literature on economic sanctions.
We discuss salient contributions to the theoretical literature, data collection, and empirical …

In the literature on sanctions effectiveness, scholars have identified a number of factors that
may contribute to sanctions success. However, existing empirical studies provide mixed …

The European Union, the United Nations, and the United States frequently use economic
sanctions. This article introduces the EUSANCT Dataset—which amends, merges, and …

International sanctions are one of the most commonly used tools to instigate democratisation
in the post‐C old W ar era. However, despite long‐term sanction pressure by the E uropean …