Elective Seminar Course on Diplomacy, Economic Sanctions and War

ASSIGNED BOOKS

Daniel W. Drezner, Henry Farrell, and Abraham Newman, eds., The Uses and Abuse of Weaponized Interdependence (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2021).

Bruce Jentleson, Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).

Richard Nephew, The Art of Sanctions: A View from the Field (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017).

1. Introduction: the what and the why of economic statecraft

Jentleson, Sanctions, introduction and chapter one and chapter four.

Nephew, The Art of Sanctions, introduction and chapter one.

Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon, chapters one, two and four.

2. Interdependence as the engine of economic statecraft

Thomas Wright, “Sifting Through Interdependence,” The Washington Quarterly 36 (Winter 2013: 7-23.

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “Weaponized Interdependence,” in Drezner, Farrell, and Newman.

Victor Cha and Andy Lim, “Flagrant Foul: China’s Predatory Liberalism and the NBA,” The Washington Quarterly 42 (Winter 2020): 23-42.

3. Theories of economic inducements

Miroslav Nincic, “The logic of positive engagement: dealing with renegade regimes,” International Studies Perspectives 7 (Winter 2006): 321-341.

Tuomas Forsberg, “Economic Incentives, Ideas, and the End of the Cold War: Gorbachev and German Unification,” Journal of Cold War Studies 7 (Spring 2005): 142-164.

Miles Kahler and Scott Kastner, “Strategic uses of economic interdependence: Engagement policies on the Korean Peninsula and across the Taiwan Strait,” Journal of Peace Research 43 (September 2006): 523-541.

Deborah Brautigam, “A critical look at Chinese ‘debt-trap diplomacy’: The rise of a meme,” Area Development and Policy 5 (January 2020): 1-14.

Alena Vieira and Syuzanna Vasilyan, “Armenia and Belarus: Caught between the EU's and Russia's conditionalities?” European Politics and Society 19 (August 2018): 471-489.

4. The prevalence of economic sanctions

James Lindsay, “Trade Sanctions as Policy Instruments: A Re-examination,” International Studies Quarterly, 30 (June 1986): 153-173.

Taehee Whang, “Playing to the Home Crowd? Symbolic Use of Economic Sanctions in the United States,” International Studies Quarterly 55 (September 2011): 787-801.

Edward Fishman, “Even Smarter Sanctions: How to Fight in the Era of Economic Warfare,” Foreign Affairs 96 (November/December 2017): 102-110.

Government Accountability Office, “Economic Sanctions,” GAO-20-324, March 2020.

Andrey Tomashevskiy, “Economic Statecraft by Other Means: The Use and Abuse of Anti-Bribery Prosecution,” International Studies Quarterly 65 (June 2021): 387-400.

5. Economic sanctions as a tool of deterrence

Timothy Peterson, “Sending a Message: The Reputation Effect of U.S. Sanction Threat Behavior,” International Studies Quarterly 57 (December 2013): 672-682.

Nicholas Miller, “The Secret Success of Nonproliferation Sanctions,” International Organization 68 (September 2014): 913-944.

Shubhangi Pandey, “U.S. Sanctions on Pakistan and their Failure as Strategic Deterrent,” ORF Issue Brief no. 251, May 2018.

Victor Cha, “How to Stop Chinese Coercion: The Case for Collective Resilience,” Foreign Affairs 102 (January/February 2023):

6. Economic statecraft as a tool of denial

Robert Pape, “Why Economic Sanctions Do Not Work,” International Security 22 (Fall 1997): 90-136.

Seema Gahlaut and Victor Zaborsky, “Do Export Control Regimes Have Members They Really Need?” Comparative Strategy 23 (January 2004): 73-91.

Cindy Whang, “The Challenges of Enforcing International Military-Use Technology Export Control Regimes: An Analysis of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty,” Wisconsin International Law Journal 33 (2015): 114-139.

Sue Eckert, “The Evolution and Effectiveness of UN Targeted Sanctions,” in Research Handbook on UN Sanctions and International Law, pp. 52-70. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017.

Bryan Early and Keith Preble, “Going Fishing versus Hunting Whales: Explaining Changes in how the U.S. Enforces Economic Sanctions,” Security Studies 29 (March 2020): 231-267.

7. Economic statecraft as a tool of coercion

Jentleson, Sanctions, chapters two and three.

Kim Nossal, “International Sanctions as International Punishment,” International Organization 43 (Spring 1989): 301-322.

Jonathan Kirshner, “The Microfoundations of Economic Sanctions,” Security Studies 6 (Spring 1997): 32-64.

Daniel W. Drezner, “The Hidden Hand of Economic Coercion,” International Organization 57 (Summer 2003): 643-659

Abel Escribà-Folch and Joseph Wright. "Dealing with Tyranny: International Sanctions and the Survival of Authoritarian Rulers." International Studies Quarterly 54 (June 2010): 335-359.

8. The role of sanctions and the role of force

David Lektzian and Christopher Sprecher, “Sanctions, Signals, and Militarized Conflict,” American Journal of Political Science 51 (April 2007): 415-431.

Daniel McCormack and Henry Pascoe, “Sanctions and Preventive War,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 61 (September 2017): 1711-1739.

Emily Weinstein, “Making War More Difficult to Wage,” Foreign Affairs, July 15, 2022.

Daniel Ahn and Rodney Ludema, “The sword and the shield: The economics of targeted sanctions,” European Economic Review 130 (November 2020): 1-21.

Grégoire Mallard and Jin Sun, “Viral Governance: How Unilateral U.S. Sanctions Changed the Rules of Financial Capitalism,” American Journal of Sociology 128 (July 2022): 144-188.

9. Multilateral cooperation and economic sanctions 

Lisa Martin, “Credibility, Costs, and Institutions: Cooperation on Economic Sanctions,” World Politics 45 (Spring 1993): 406-432.

Audie Klotz, “Norms and sanctions: lessons from the socialization of South Africa,” Review of International Studies 22 (April 1996): 173-190.

Bryan Early and Robert Spice, “Economic Sanctions, International Institutions, and Sanctions Busters: When Does Institutionalized Cooperation Help Sanctioning Efforts?” Foreign Policy Analysis 11 (July 2015): 339-360.

Michael Mastanduno, “Strategies of Economic Containment: U.S. Trade Relations with the Soviet Union,” World Politics 37 (July 1985): 503-531.

Johan Galtung, “On the Effects of International Economic Sanctions, with Examples from the Case of Rhodesia,” World Politics 19 (April 1967): 378-416.

10. Sanctions and the private sector

Doris Fuchs, “Commanding heights? The strength and fragility of business power in global politics.” Millennium 33 (June 2005): 771-801.

David Lektzian and Glen Biglaiser, “Investment, Opportunity, and Risk: Do US Sanctions Deter or Encourage Global Investment?” International Studies Quarterly 57 (March 2013): 65-78.

Colin Barry and Katja B. Kleinberg, “Profiting from Sanctions: Economic Coercion and US Foreign Direct Investment in Third-Party States." International Organization 69 (Winter 2015): 881-912.

Julia Morse, “Blacklists, Market Enforcement, and the Global Regime to Combat Terrorist Financing,” International Organization 73 (Summer 2019): 511-545.