The Political Economy of Security: People, Firms, States and Institutions

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Economic sanctions are often argues to be an alternative to armed conflict. However, there are many dimensions of sanctions. In the first paper, the authors use a unique survey of households to measure the effects of economic sanctions on the food insecurity of Iranian families between 1984 and 2018. In the second paper, the authors ask why do financial actors, such as banks, investment firms, and multinational corporations sometimes comply with a state’s financial sanctions, and sometimes defect? The third paper questions when and how does the US compel other countries to join its economic coercion efforts? And the fourth paper moves away from the US and western countries and considers the role of sanctions in China's foreign policy.

Sub Unit

• Division 16: International Political Economy

Cosponsor

• Division 20: Foreign Policy

Individual Presentations

• Economic Sanctions and Food Insecurity: Evidence from Iranian Households - Peyman Asadzade, Arizona State University; Babak RezaeeDaryakenari, Arizona State University; Cameron G. Thies, Michigan State University

• Diplomacy and Domestic Stability - Matt Malis, New York University; Alastair Smith, New York University

• How States Maintain Cooperation by Building New International Organizations - Andrew David Lugg, University of Maryland

Chair

• Cameron G. Thies Michigan State University

Discussant

• Clara Park University of Colorado Boulder