The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions

Ksenia Kirkham is a Lecturer in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, UK. Her current research interests include economic warfare, energy security and sustainable development, the political economy of sanctions, and welfare state regimes.

Introduction Section 1. Theoretical and Historical Aspects of Sanctions 1. The Evaluation of Sanctions Efficacy 2. A Brief Overview of the Evolution of the Use of Unilateral Sanctions 3. Theoretical Aspects of Sanctions 4. Theoretical Identification of the Mechanisms of Sanctions 5. Sanctions, Deterrence and the Recent Case of Russia Section 2. Political Economy of Sanctions 6. International Sanctions on Oil: Why Some Target States are More Capable of Avoiding Them 7. Financial Blacklisting and the Return Toward Indiscriminate Sanctions 8. The Termination of International Sanctions: Actors, Processes and Consequences 9. Violence at a Distance: Correcting International Law’s Short-Sighted Vision of Economic Coercion 10. Sanctions when Sanctions Fail: Decoupling and US Policy Towards China 11. Unilateral Sanctions as Sustainable Development Decelerators Section 3. Target States: Voices from the Sanctioned States 12. Do Sanctions Really Work? The Case of Contemporary Western Sanctions against Russia 13. The US Sanctions and the Chinese Political Economy 14. Iranian Discourses and Practices on the US Sanctions: Rouhani and Raeisi Administrations 15. The Political Economy of Sanctions: The Case of Cuba 16. The Unintended Consequences of African Union Sanctions of Member States: Myths and Realities Section 4. Third Parties: The Impact of Secondary Sanctions 17. Implications of Drifting Sanction Policies by Japan and Korea 18. The U.S. Sanctions Offensive: Implications for ‘Third Parties’ and the Transatlantic Relationship 19. The Impact of Western Sanctions on Global Supply Chains and the Green Transition: The Case of EV Battery Manufacturing in South Korea and the EU 20. How Do Third Parties React to Commodity Sanctions? 21. Overview of Secondary Sanctions: Turkey Under the Ghost of Western Economic Sanctions 22. Emerging India and Sanctions: Balancing Norms and Interests Section 5. Hot Debates: Legal Aspects of Sanctions 23. Humanitarian Impact of Unilateral Sanctions 24. US Secondary Sanctions: Lawful After All? 25. The Principle of Non-Intervention and the Dilemma of the Legality of the Unilateral Coercive Measures 26. Assessing the Legality of the EU Sanctions Imposed on the Russian Federation from 2022