Economic sanctions reconsidered
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- A Case Study Approach -- Sender Countries and Their Motives -- Limitations on the Use of Sanctions -- Historical Overview -- Plan of the Book -- Appendix 1A -- Chapter 2 Analyzing the Utility of Sanctions -- Anatomy of a Sanctions Episode -- Framework for Analysis -- Foreign Policy Goals -- Overview of the Variables Affecting the Costs of Defiance and Compliance -- Chapter 3 Political Variables -- Modest Changes in Policy -- Regime Change -- Disrupting Military Adventures -- Impairing Military Potential -- Other Major Policy Changes -- Politics, the Cold War, and Sanctions Targets -- Appendix 3A -- Chapter 4 Economic Variables -- Size of Sender and Target Countries -- Trade Linkages -- Types of Sanctions -- Economic Health and Political Stability of Target Countries -- Cost of Sanctions to Targets -- Costs of Sanctions to Senders -- Appendix 4A -- Chapter 5 Sanctions after the Cold War -- Evolution of US Sanctions Policy -- New Targets and Goals for Sanctions -- The United Nations and Postwar Sanctions Policy -- Congressional Intervention in Sanctions Policy -- State and Local Government Sanctions -- The Incredible Lightness of "Smart Sanctions -- New Challenges for Sanctions Policy -- Appendix 5A -- Chapter 6 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations -- Are Sanctions Effective? -- Policy Recommendations: Using Sanctions More Effectively -- Conclusion: Look Before You Leap -- Appendix A Econometric Analysis of Economic Sanctions -- Appendix B Impact of US Economic Sanctions on Trade -- Appendix C Methodology Used to Estimate the Costs of Sanctions to the Target Country -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index.