Exxon, Coke, Pepsi and others would all be hurt by any economic sanctions that limit their ability to access the Russian market. In addition, Russia could retaliate with sanctions of their own.

Many sanctions, even “legal” sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council (e.g. against Iraq 1991-2003), can cause death, even massive death, as documented by UNICEF and other ...

Evidence compiled by the authors shows that sanctions contribute to measurable increases in both food prices and hunger.

“What’s really striking about the sanctions against Russia, however, is that you do have a pretty significant, tangible area of economic effect that’s broadly recognizable to U.S. consumers ...

I share the world’s outrage at Russia’s aggression in Ukraine. Yet as the West promises to ramp up economic sanctions, the wordsmith in me is moved to wonder how we came to call them sanctions ...

Two former Obama administration officials defended the use of economic sanctions even as they slammed the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Iran last week. A growing coalition on ...

Economic sanctions take many forms. The 1961 quarantine of Cuba targeted the whole country, but the 2014 Russia sanctions singled out a few economic sectors, enterprises and individuals.

On the scale of possible sanctions, “this could be 10 out of 10,” said Ms. Friedlander, who was an adviser in the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence during the ...

So sanctions imposed on a country to damage its economy often tend to do economic harm to its neighbours. But not always. In some of the cases we looked at, sanctions actually have a positive ...

European Union foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday to lift the remaining economic sanctions on Syria, hoping to help the nation recover as it tries to find stable footing after years of war and ...