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 record of success, with economic sanctions achieving their goals less than a third of the time they are...

How economic sanctions are enforced undoubtedly has a major impact on whether they are successful. To shed light on the ways in which governments enforce their sanctions, we conduct an empirically-driven case study of how the lead agency for enforcing economic sanctions in the United States, the...

Despite the U.S. Government's use of economic sanctions as one of its primary counter-proliferation tools, few studies have actually examined their overarching impact on nuclear weapons proliferation. Drawing on the sanctions and nuclear proliferation literatures, I hypothesize that U.S....