Evaluating the “Success” of International Economic Sanctions: Multiple Goals, Interpretive Methods and Critique

• Main Authors: JONES, Lee, PORTELA, Clara
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: sanctions; international economics; Political Science; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1671
• Institution: Singapore Management University

How do we determine whether international economic sanctions are “successful”? So far, the sanctions literature has held closely to the answer that they believe policymakers would give: they are successful insofar as they compel the target of sanctions to comply with the senders’ stated demands. Yet...