This paper examines the impact of regionally imposed sanctions on the trajectory of the Burundian regime and its … vulnerability, the Buyoya government withstood the pressure from the sanctions. Through a vocal campaign against these sanctions … has attributed the sanctions' success in pressuring the government into negotiations to their economic impact, the …

International sanctions have been one of the most commonly used tools of Western foreign policy in the post-Cold War … era to instigate democratization globally. However, despite long-term external pressure through sanctions imposed by the …, North Korea and Syria has proven to be extremely persistent. In this paper, we analyze a new global dataset on sanctions …

This article examines the impact of UN‐imposed sanctions on the stability of the Eritrean regime, using diaspora … well as regime opponents, have all instrumentalized the sanctions for their own specific purposes. While the former use the … sanctions to create a "rally around the flag" effect and for fundraising purposes, the latter campaign against the 2 percent …

Research on sanctions has hitherto focused on their implementation and effectiveness, whereas the termination of such … measures has received only little attention. The traditional model, which looks at sanctions and their removal in terms of …. Yet, this research insufficiently captures the back and forth between easing sanctions, stagnation, and renewed …

regimes. Around three-quarters of all countries under United Nations, United States, and European Union sanctions are … authoritarian, and “democracy sanctions” that aim at improving democratic and human rights in targeted countries constitute the … biggest sanctions category. Yet, authoritarian regimes represent particularly problematic targets as they can more easily …