Economic Sanctions and Presidential Decisions

Models of Political Rationality

  • Authors
  • A. Cooper Drury
Book

Part of the Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis book series (AFPA)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction
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    Pages 1-7
  3. Economic Coercion in Theory and Practice
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    Pages 8-31
  4. Evaluating Sanction Effectiveness
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    Pages 32-58
  5. Why Does the President Sanction? Beyond the Conventional Wisdom
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    Pages 59-89
  6. When Does the President Sanction? An Empirical Analysis
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    Pages 90-131
  7. Is There a Target Selection Bias?
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    Pages 132-142
  8. The Decision to Modify an Economic Sanction Policy
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    Pages 143-158
  9. What Kinds of Sanctions Does the President Use? Domestic Constraints and Incentives
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    Pages 159-174
  10. Conclusions and Implications
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    Pages 175-189
  11. Back Matter
    Pages 190-225
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About this book

Introduction

Economic sanctions: panacea, symbolic but ineffectual, or useless and counterproductive? While these questions have framed much the existing debate, Drury digs deeper to why foreign policy leaders, and especially the president, choose sanctions, of which type, whether to sustain them, and when to terminate them. Skilfully integrating domestic and international factors, and placing the analysis of sanctions directly into the mainstream of strategic studies and decision theory, this book breaks new ground with its innovative argument and thorough testing using a variety of databases.

Keywords

assessment database databases decision theory foreign policy

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