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The Complexity of Sanctions
The way we use sanctions in the post-9-11 period was to very much target actors so that we would unplug them from the system. So there's a range of types of sanctions that are about disallowing access to the system and to particular goods and even currency. What's happened over time is we've looked at more complicated targets like Venezuela or Iran or Russia that have serious economies.