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Trade
Sanctions
BOOK:
Hiscox, Michael J. High Stakes: The Political Economy of U.S. Trade
Sanctions, 1950-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009, forthcoming. The book examines U.S. sanctions
policy from 1950 to 2000. It reports a new set of data on all trade sanctions
imposed on foreign nations by the White House during this period, and all
sanctions legislation introduced and considered in Congress. It argues
that 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. policy objectives.
RECENT PAPER:
Hiscox, Michael J. Balancing
Act: The Political Economy of U.S. Trade Sanctions. Version 12/108.
Develops a model of sanctions policy making that allows for both group
lobbying and international bargaining, and examines evidence on approximately
500 sanctions bills proposed in Congress between 1971 and 2000, and on
some 40 trade sanctions imposed by the president during the same period. |
