• Why Sanctions Regimes Consistently Fail to Achieve Their Stated Objectives

    The GAO has documented it. The Treasury’s own OFAC reports show it. The academic literature going back to Hufbauer, Schott, and Elliott’s foundational work in the 1980s has quantified it. Comprehensive sanctions succeed in compelling significant policy behavior change in the targeted state roughly 30 percent of the time — and that number holds generous…

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