TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tobias Lechner
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631823866
TI  - Collateral Damage Autocracy?
T2  - On the Impact of Economic Sanctions on the Political System
DO  - 10.3726/b17039
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1058630
N2  - Anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that economic sanctions, a popular tool of modern foreign policy, have a negative collateral damage to the political system of the target state. However, it is not clear under which circumstances sanctions have an autocratizing effect. Newer data on sanctions and regimes enable testing the most plausible hypotheses. The quantitative analysis finds that sanctions with high economic costs do not cause autocratization. Sanctions are not as bad – and perhaps not as useless – as many fear.
LA  - English
ER  -