ABSTRACT: 
The book examines U.S. sanctions policy from 1950 to 2010, reporting a new and detailed set of data on all trade sanctions imposed on foreign nations by the White House during this period, and all trade sanctions legislation proposed in Congress. It develops a model of sanctions policymaking that incorporates lobbying for organized special interest groups. The book's main argument is that U.S. sanctions policy has been powerfully shaped by domestic political calculations about the economic costs and benefits of different policies for particular groups; only rarely has policy reflected strategic calculations about how best to pressure foreign governments to alter their behavior in line with broader U.S. foreign policy objectives. Besides reporting the new quantitative data, the book presents detailed histories of the evolution of U.S. policy towards Cuba, the Soviet Bloc, South Africa, China, and Iraq. 

The book will be available from Cambridge University Press in 2012.

Related prior and subsquent papers and publications on trade politics can be trade downloaded here. Using the links below you can download the data reported in the book on trade sanctions legislation proposed in Congress, trade sanctions imposed by the White House, and importance of export and import-competing industries affected by proposed and implemented sanctions, as well as the the code for replicating the statistical analysis.

DATA DOWNLOADS:
Trade sanctions legislation proposed in Congress, 1950-2010
Trade sanctions imposed by the White House, 1950-2010
Production in export and import-competing industries affected by proposed and imposed trade sanctions
Stata files for replication of statistical analysis