Soest, Christian von; Wahman, Michael - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012
Previous research, which has focused mostly on pre-1990 dynamics, has shown that sanctions have a negative impact on … become the most common goal of sanctions issued against authoritarian states. This paper studies how sanctions have affected … democratization in targeted countries since the end of the Cold War and asks whether “democratic sanctions,” those that explicitly aim …