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The Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions, 1971—2000*

Department of Political Science, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, morgan{at}rice.edu

Navin Bapat

Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

Valentin Krustev

Department of Political Science, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Economic sanctions, increasingly used as instruments of foreign policy in recent decades, have been the focus of numerous academic studies. Recent theoretical advances in our understanding of sanctions cannot be tested adequately with 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 frequently used in previous research. We also present simple statistical relationships between sanctions outcomes and some of the variables commonly believed to affect sanctions success.

Key Words: dataset • economic coercion • economic sanctions • threats

Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 26, No. 1, 92-110 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0738894208097668


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