Political Marketplace Framework: Sanctions in the Political Market

This memo examines how targeted sanctions can operate in a political marketplace system

Abstract

This memo examines how targeted sanctions can operate in a political marketplace system. It argues that we should analyse the sanctions toolkit in the context of the transactional politics of elites in sanctioned countries, and specifically the logic of the political marketplace, which emerges as a powerful metric for understanding what sanctions actually do. On this basis, we can assess what are the likely impacts of sanctions (or their removal).

This work is part of the Conflict Research Programme managed by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and funded by the UK Department for International Development

Citation

Benjamin Spatz (2020) Political Marketplace Framework: Sanctions in the Political Market. Conflict Research Programme Policy Memo. Conflict Research Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Political Marketplace Framework: Sanctions in the Political Market (PDF, 240KB)

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Published 26 November 2019