Why US economic sanctions often fail
Dollar & Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast
The Success of Sanctions on Iran
The US has imposed more sanctions over the past decades than the EU, Canada and the UN combined. Iran comes to mind immediately as a case where sanctions have worked well in the sense of meeting US objectives. The lesson here is that sanctions work better when they target a democracy but not one with dismal human rights record.
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