Attia, Hana - In: Review of International Economics 32 (2023) 1, pp. 109-131
distress. This article revisits the diversionary theory and adapts it to the use of economic sanctions in the United States …, contending that their use follows a similar diversionary logic. Using a novel dataset on US sanctions from 1989 to 2015, I find … that presidents are more likely to use sanctions when unemployment is high and the president's party power in Congress is …
