Western powers often turn to international sanctions in order to exert pressure on incumbent
governments and signal their support for the opposition. Yet whether, and through what …

How do the human rights practices abroad affect decisions about the allocation of foreign
aid? This article provides a new approach to this long-standing question. We bring donor …

Recent theories of foreign aid assume that moral motives drive voters' preferences about
foreign aid. However, little is known about how moral concerns interact with the widely …

With the proliferation of sanctions after the end of the Cold War, the termination of these
punitive measures has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in international politics. Yet …

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

How do the distributional consequences of economic sanctions impact future trade policy?
Regardless of whether sanctions are effective in achieving concessions, sanctions restrict …

Although much research has examined how third parties might affect the success of
economic sanctions, scant research has considered the extent to which potential—rather …

Does the attention of human rights organizations limit exports from rights-abusing states?
This article examines how naming and shaming by human rights organizations (HROs) …

This study analyzes the consequences of economic sanctions for the target country's human
rights situation. We offer a political economy explanation for different types of human rights …

Do public condemnations by the United Nations human rights bodies lead to foreign direct
investment (FDI) loss for abusive regimes? The Human Rights Commission and later …