Recent Publications

• The Fog of Peace: Who Profits from Economic Sanctions?

  June 27, 2023

  Sustaining the myth of the dichotomy between the domains of war and peace exacerbates the vulnerability of certain states.

  

• Economic Sanctions and Humanitarian Principles: Lessons from International Humanitarian Law

  June 26, 2023

  Sanctions often serve as a means of waging economic warfare in an era of intensified geopolitical tension. 

  

• Successful Failures: Economic Sanctions, Humanitarianism, and the Undoing of Post-Colonial Sovereignty

  June 26, 2023

  The successful failure of the humanitarian critique of economic sanctions as it relates to humanitarian relief provided to Afghans.

  

• Situating Unilateral Coercive Measures Within a Broader Understanding of Systemic Violence

  June 23, 2023

  Unilateral coercive measures may often create or worsen a protracted crisis and can prove ineffective, inhibiting aid and magnifying harm.

  

• Sanctions’ New Colonizers

  June 22, 2023

  In the current moment of U.S. financial imperialism and economic sanctions, a host of “new” colonizers have emerged, empowering private parties.

  

• The Opacity of Economic Coercion

  June 21, 2023

  How U.S. financial sanctions are both enabled by and exacerbate the unequal integration of the post-colonial world economy.

  

• Economic Sanctions: Where Law and Political Economy Meets Third World Approaches to International Law

  June 20, 2023

  Economic sanctions, touted as a peaceful alternative to war, have long been controversial in international law and international relations.

  

• Unilateral Coercive Measures: Effects and Legality Issues

  June 20, 2023

  Discusses the classification of unilateral coercive measures, identifies their consequences, and highlights their violations of international law. 

  

• Symposium: Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions

  June 20, 2023

  Yale Journal of International Law, in collaboration with the LPE Project, presents this 2023 Symposium.

  

• Symposium Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions

  April 5, 2023

  This post introduces the Symposium Workshop: TWAIL & Economic Sanctions