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Case Studies in Sanctions and Terrorism

The Institute’s work on economic sanctions was developed in the 1980s and has constantly been updated and revised since then by the intact team of Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Schott, Kimberly Ann Elliott, and Barbara Oegg. The team’s latest analysis and recommendations and more than 200 case studies will be published as a CD-ROM in the forthcoming third edition of Economic Sanctions Reconsidered.

Summary of economic sanctions episodes, 1914–2006

Cases 50-1 and 93-1
US and UN v. North Korea (1950– : Korean War)
US and UN v. North Korea (1993– : nuclear proliferation)

Case 60-3
US v. Cuba (1960– : Castro)

Cases 62-2 and 85-1
UN v. South Africa (1962–1994: Apartheid; Namibia)
US, Commonwealth v. South Africa (1985–91: Apartheid)

Case 76-3 (formerly 65-4)
US v. Arab League (1979– : Antiboycott Measures)

Cases 78-8 and 92-12
US v. Libya (1978-: Gadhafi, Terrorism) and
UN v. Libya (1992-99: Pan Am 103)

Case 79-2 and Case 99-3
US v. Pakistan (1979– : Nuclear Missile Proliferation)
US, Japan v. Pakistan (1999–2001: Coup, restore democracy)

Case 80-2 and Case 90-1
US v. Iraq (1980–2003: Terrorism; Chemical and Nuclear Weapons)
US and UN v. Iraq (1990– : Invasion of Kuwait, Impairment of military capability, destabilization)

Case 84-1
US v. Iran (1984– : Terrorism, Proliferation)

Case 86-1
US v. Syria (1986– : Terrorism)

Case 88-1
US/EU/Japan v. Burma (Myanmar) (1988– : Human rights, democracy, narcotics)

Case 89-2
US v. China (1989– : Tiananmen Square Massacre, Human Rights)

Case 89-3
US v. Sudan (1989– : Human Rights; Civil War; Democracy)

Case 98-1
US v. India (1998– : Nuclear Weapons Proliferation)

Case 99-1
US and UN v. Afghanistan (Taliban)
(1999–2002: extradition of Osama Bin Laden)