existing data. This article presents a newly developed dataset that contains information on 888 cases in which sanctions were … threatened and/or implemented in the 1971—2000 period. We describe the dataset, present descriptive statistics for some of the … key variables included, and offer comparisons with the Hufbauer, Schott, and Elliot dataset on sanctions that has been …

dynamics. This article introduces the Militarized Compellent Threats dataset, which is designed specifically to help test … threats has yielded a long list of important theoretical innovations. In 1960, Thomas Schelling drew a distinction between … threats meant to deter and those designed to compel, but empirical research about coercion has paid much more attention to …

democracy in targeted authoritarian states. Using a new dataset on democratic sanctions between 1990 and 2010, time …

, contending that their use follows a similar diversionary logic. Using a novel dataset on US sanctions from 1989 to 2015, I find …