Sanctions

Bruce W. Jentleson is William Preston Few Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science at Duke University, as well as a 2022 Distinguished Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He received the 2018 American Political Science Association (APSA) International Security Section Joseph J. Kruzel Award for Distinguished Public Service. He has served in a number of US foreign policy positions, including as Senior Advisor to the State Department Policy Planning Director (2009-11). He is Co-Director of the Bridging the Gap project promoting greater policy relevance among academics. His other books include The Peacemakers, American Foreign Policy, The End of Arrogance, and Pipeline Politics.

I'm often told how vital and effective sanctions are. Then I trip across confident assertions that sanctions seldom accomplish what they're supposed to. So I'm thankful that experts like my Duke University colleague Bruce Jentleson are around to resolve my confusion and explain it all, as he does in his new book.

• Introduction: Puzzles Posed for International Relations Theory and Foreign Policy Strategy Part One: Scholarly Debates and Challenges EM Chapter 1: Economic Sanctions: What, Who, Why and How Chapter 2: Do Sanctions Work?: Measuring Success Chapter 3: Explaining Sanctions Success/Failure Part Two: Major Cases, Theory Applied, Policy Analyzed Chapter 4: Historical Perspective: Lessons from Past Sanctions Cases Chapter 5: United States: Foreign Policy Strategy and Domestic Politics Chapter 6: China's Use of Sanctions Chapter 7: Soviet Union/Russia: Energy Pipelines and Other Sanctions Chapter 8: United Nations and European Union: Multilateral and Regional Sanctions Conclusion: Sanctions Theory, Sanctions Policy Appendix: 2022 Russia-Ukraine War Sanctions Notes Index