How can information campaigns of nongovernmental human rights organizations (HROs) to
“name and shame” human rights violators improve human rights conditions? Is the effect …

There is some consensus in the literature that economic sanctions might prompt more
human rights abuses in target countries. Yet, the causal mechanisms underlining the …

Economic sanctions have long been used as a coercive instrument of foreign policy, but the
frequency of their use increased dramatically from 1990 onward. This is particularly curious …

Economic sanctions are frequently used policy instruments in international politics. They are
employed to deal with a wide range of issues. Policymakers levy sanctions to cope with …

Scholars contend that embedding human rights conditionality in trade agreements can
improve human rights. We argue that human rights interests may collide with trade …

Sanctions are among the most frequently used foreign policy tools to address human rights
violations, but they can be highly politicized. Since the early 2000s, human rights sanctions …

What effect do economic sanctions have on target governments' response to citizen
campaigns? We assert that sanctions as a signal of international support for campaigners …

The dominant theoretical perspective guiding research on economic sanctions views
sanctions as tools of bargaining. This implies that senders and targets are engaged in …

Why does the US government choose to initiate human rights-based economic sanctions
against some highly repressive target countries, but not others? And, under what conditions …

Sanctions are critical to the Security Council's efforts to fight terrorism. What is striking is that
the Council's sanctions regimes are subject to detailed sets of rules and decision criteria …