Nephew, Richard (2023), ISBN: 9780231180276, Columbia University Press
Nephew is offering a practical framework for planning and implementing sanctions. The book emphasises the relevance of an initial sanction strategy and how to set up sanctions that can be adjusted over time. It also offers a structure for evaluating if the sanctions were effective. It explores the connection between pain (introduced by the sanctions) and resolve (resist, tolerate or overcome) the pain.
“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.”
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