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The Art of Sanctions

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The Art of Sanctions by Richard Nephew presents a practical framework for designing and implementing sanctions as a tool of foreign policy. Nephew, with direct experience in sanctions on Iran, emphasises the importance of a clear strategy that adapts to the target's evolving behaviour. The book centres on understanding two key factors: the pain sanctions inflict and the target's resolve to withstand it. By analysing these dynamics, policy makers can better decide when to intensify sanctions, seek diplomatic solutions, or recognise success. The lessons drawn from sanctions on Iran and Iraq provide invaluable guidance for deploying sanctions effectively and humanely.
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The Art of Sanctions is ideal for policymakers, diplomats, international relations professionals, scholars, and readers interested in global affairs and the strategic use of economic sanctions.

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The Art of Sanctions offers a practical framework for planning and applying sanctions based on two critical factors: pain and resolve. Focusing on lessons learned from sanctions on Iran and Iraq, Richard Nephew provides policymakers with practical guidance on how to measure and respond to pain and resolve to achieve successful sanctions regimes.

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Nations and international organisations are increasingly using sanctions as a means to achieve their foreign policy aims. However, sanctions are ineffective if they are executed without a clear strategy responsive to the nature and changing behaviour of the target.

In The Art of Sanctions, Richard Nephew offers a much-needed practical framework for planning and applying sanctions that focuses not just on the initial sanctions strategy but also, crucially, on how to calibrate along the way and how to decide when sanctions have achieved maximum effectiveness.

Nephewโ€”a leader in the design and implementation of sanctions on Iranโ€”develops guidelines for interpreting targets' responses to sanctions based on two critical factors: pain and resolve. The efficacy of sanctions lies in the application of pain against a target, but targets may have significant resolve to resist, tolerate, or overcome this pain.

Understanding the interplay of pain and resolve is central to using sanctions both successfully and humanely. With attention to these two key variables, and to how they change over the course of a sanctions regime, policymakers can pinpoint when diplomatic intervention is likely to succeed or when escalation is necessary.

Focusing on lessons learned from sanctions on both Iran and Iraq, Nephew provides policymakers with practical guidance on how to measure and respond to pain and resolve in the service of strong and successful sanctions regimes.

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Praised by experts such as Dennis Ross and Daniel Fried, the book is described as a highly readable and masterful insider's guide to sanctions policy. Ross highlights its thoughtful insights and value for both specialists and the interested public, while Fried recommends it as essential reading for those engaged with major geopolitical concerns like North Korea, Russia, or Iran. The practical and experience-based approach makes it an important resource on this vital foreign policy tool.

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ISBN: 9780231180276

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 March 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Columbia University Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 232

About the Author

Richard Nephew is the U.S. State Department coordinator on global anti-corruption. He has been a senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia Universityโ€™s School of International and Public Affairs. Nephew was the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran from August 2013 to December 2014. He has also served as director for Iran on the National Security Council at the White House and as deputy coordinator for sanctions policy and deputy special envoy for Iran at the State Department.

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