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Comprehensive Economic Sanctions

Explore research on the use of comprehensive economic sanctions as a tool to help prevent mass atrocities.

Sources

We included the following 37 research reports in our review:

Adam, Antonis; Tsarsitalidou, Sofa. "Do sanctions lead to a decline in civil liberties?," Public Choice, vol. 180 (2019): 191-215, DOI: 10.1007/s11127-018-00628-6.

Agbonifo, John. “Sanctions, Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: Coercing Non-State Armed Actors in Africa,” Department of Sociology, Osun State University, Nigeria, 2017, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316435892_Sanctions_Conflict_Prevention_and_Peacebuilding_Coercing_Non-State_Armed_Actors_in_Africa

Ang, Adrian U-Jin; Peksen, Dursun. "When Do Economic Sanctions Work? Asymmetric Perceptions, Issue Salience, and Outcomes," Political Research Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 1 (2007): 135-145, DOI: 10.1177/1065912906298632.

Breslawski, Jori; Cunningham, David E.; Fleishman, Madeline. "Regional Organizations and Conflict Management,” 2022, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4239908.

Broache, Michael P.; Cronin-Furman, Kate. "Does Type of Violence Matter for Interventions to Mitigate Mass Atrocities?," Journal of Global Security Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (2020): 1-9, DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogz068.

Carneiro, Cristiane Lucena; Apolinário Jr., Laerte. "Targeted Versus Conventional Economic Sanctions: What Is at Stake for Human Rights?," International Interactions, vol. 42, no. 4 (2016): 565-589, DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2015.1036989.

Carneiro, Cristiane; Elden, Dominique. "Economic Sanctions, Leadership Survival, and Human Rights," University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, vol. 30 (2009): 969-998, https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jil/vol30/iss3/6/

Carneiro, Lucena; de Andrade, Cristiane. "Economic sanctions and human rights: an analysis of competing enforcement strategies in Latin America," Rev. Bras. Polit. Int., vol. 57, no. 1 (2014): 197-215, DOI: 10.1590/0034-7329201400111.

Clay, K. Chad. "Threat by Example: Economic Sanctions and Global Respect for Human Rights," Journal of Global Security Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (2018): 133-149, DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogy006.

Do, Kyung-ok; Baek, Sangme. The Impact of Sanctions on the Enjoyment of Human Rights, Korea Institute for National Unification, 2019, https://www.kinu.or.kr/pyxis-api/1/digital-files/e109958c-d00b-4255-a212-9e5ec56ad47d

Drury, A. Cooper; Li, Yitan. "U.S. Economic Sanction Threats Against China: Failing to Leverage Better Human Rights," Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 2 (2006): 307-324, https://www.jstor.org/stable/24907254

Escribà-Folch, Abel. "Economic sanctions and the duration of civil conflicts," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 47, no. 2 (2010): 129-141, DOI: 10.1177/0022343309356489.

Gibbons, Elizabeth; Garfield, Richard. "The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Health and Human Rights in Haiti, 1991-1994," American Journal of Public Health, vol. 89, no. 10 (1999): 1499-1504, DOI: 10.2105/ajph.89.10.1499. 

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian. "Precision-guided or blunt? The effects of US economic sanctions on human rights," Public Choice, vol. 185 (2020): 161-182, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00746-9

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian. "Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap," The Journal of Development Studies, vol. 57, no. 1 (2021), 139-162, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2020.1746277.

Heine-Ellison, S. "The Impact and Effectiveness of Multilateral Economic Sanctions: A Comparative Study," The International Journal of Human Rights, vol. 5, no. 1 (2001): 81-112, DOI: 10.1080/714003707.

Howlett, Amy. "Getting ‘Smart’: Crafting Economic Sanctions That Respect All Human Rights," Fordham Law Review, vol. 73, no. 3 (2004): 1199-1237, https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4050&context=flr

Hultman, Lisa; Peksen, Dursun. "Successful or Counterproductive Coercion? The Effect of International Sanctions on Conflict Intensity," The Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 61, no. 6 (2017): 1315-1339, DOI: 10.1177/0022002715603453.

Ingold, Emanuel, “The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Respect for Human Rights after the End of the Cold War,” The American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, 2013, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2299765.

Kim, Hyung-Min. "Determinants of the Success of Economic Sanctions: An Empirical Analysis," Journal of International and Area Studies, vol. 16, no. 1 (2009): 27-51, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43107182

Krain, Matthew. "The effect of economic sanctions on the severity of genocides or politicides," (2017): 1-48, https://discover.wooster.edu/mkrain/files/2014/01/SanctionsGP1.pdf

Le Billon, Philippe; Nicholls, Eric. "Ending 'Resource Wars': Revenue Sharing, Economic Sanction or Military Intervention?," International Peacekeeping, vol. 14, no. 5 (2007): 613-632, DOI: 10.1080/13533310701753941.

Le Billon, Philippe. "Natural Resource Types and Conflict Termination Initiatives," Colombia Internacional, no. 70 (2009): 9-34, http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0121-56122009000200002

Lektzian, D.; Regan, P.M. "Economic sanctions, military interventions, and civil conflict outcomes," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 53, no. 4 (2016): 554-568, DOI: 10.1177/0022343316638714.

Liou, Ryan Yu-Lin; Murdie, Amanda; Peksen, Dursun. "Revisiting the Causal Links between Economic Sanctions and Human Rights Violations," Political Research Quarterly, (2020): 1-14, DOI: 10.1177/1065912920941596.

Lundqvist, Martin; Hultman, Lisa. Civilian Wellbeing and Humanitarian Access in the Context of Targeted Sanctions, Swedish Red Cross, (2022), https://www.rodakorset.se/siteassets/dokument/om-oss/fakta-och-standpunkter/rapporter/civilian-wellbeing-and-humanitarian-access-in-the-context-of-targeted--sanctions/civilian-wellbeing-and-humanitarian-access-in-the-context-of-targeted-sanctions-2022.pdf

Lv, Zhike; Xu, Ting. "The effect of economic sanctions on ethnic violence of target states: A panel data analysis," The Social Science Journal, vol. 54 (2017): 102-105, DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2016.11.005.

Meissner, Katharina L.; Mello, Patrick A. "The unintended consequences of UN sanctions: A qualitative comparative analysis," Contemporary Security Policy, vol. 43, no. 2 (2022), 243-273, DOI: 10.1080/13523260.2022.2059226.

Mossberg, Hilary. Beyond Carrots, Better Sticks: Measuring and Improving the Effectiveness of Sanctions in Africa, The Sentry, 2019, https://thesentry.org/reports/beyond-carrots-better-sticks/.

Nyseth Brehm, H.; Taylor, W. K. "Sanctioning Genocide: To What Effect?," Sociological Perspectives, vol. 64, no. 6 (2021), 1081-1103, DOI: 10.1177/0731121421990071.

Onder, Mehmet. "Consequences of economic sanctions on minority groups in the sanctioned states," Digest of Middle East Studies, vol. 31, no. 3 (2022), 201-227, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12268

Peksen, Dursun; Drury, A. Cooper. "Economic Sanctions and Political Repression: Assessing the Impact of Coercive Diplomacy on Political Freedoms," Human Rights Review, vol. 10 (2009): 393-411, DOI: 10.1007/s12142-009-0126-2.

Peksen, Dursun; Early, Bryan R. "Does Misery Love Company? Analyzing the Global Suffering Inflicted by US Economic Sanctions," Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 2 (2022), 1-12, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksac013

Peksen, Dursun. "Better or Worse? The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Human Rights," Journal of Peace Research, vol. 46, no. 1 (2009): 59-77, DOI: 10.1177/0022343308098404.

Shyrokykh, Karina. "Human rights sanctions and the role of black knights: Evidence from the EU’s post-Soviet neighbours," Journal of European Integration vol. 44, no. 3 (2022), 429-449, DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2021.1908278. 

Sousa, Ricardo Real P. "External Interventions in Post-Cold War Africa, 1989-2010," International Interactions, vol. 41, no. 4 (2015): 621-647, DOI: 10.1080/03050629.2015.1028626.

Wood, Reed M. "’A Hand upon the Throat of the Nation": Economic Sanctions and State Repression, 1976-2001," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 3 (2008): 489-513, https://www.jstor.org/stable/29734248.

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