This article analyses economic sanctions starting from the perspective of a target that has to allocate its income between spending on resources pursue contentious policy and consumption goods. By studying target’s problem, it demonstrates how could backfire causing shift policy, thereby increasing severity policy. Whether this will come pass depends elasticities substitution, which are determi...

Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, we examine the evolution of economic sanctions in post-World War II era and reflect on lessons that could be drawn from their features patterns use. We observe that, during this time, there has been a remarkable increase use as instrument foreign policy. classify period into four ‘eras’ discuss, context, how may linked to salient contemporaneous internat...

While economic sanctions are successful in achieving political goals, can hurt the civilian population. These negative effects could be even more detrimental and long-lasting for future generations. This study estimates of on children’s education by exploiting United Nations imposed Iran 2006. Using variation strength across industries difference-in-differences with synthetic control analyses, ...