No. 83: Economic Sanctions

Silver Bullet or Harmless Dud?

Author(s): Daniel Trachsler
Editor(s): Daniel Trachsler
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 83
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010

Since the end of the Cold War, economic sanctions have been imposed more often than ever before. At the same time, there are doubts as to their effectiveness. The fact is that apart from economic sanctions, there are few options between words and warfare to induce a change of behaviour in international actors. Therefore, sanctions will remain an important element of the foreign and security policy toolbox of the community of states. Consequently, the debate over when the imposition of economic measures is useful, and how such sanctions regimes should be designed, is gaining importance.

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When are Economic Sanctions Effective?