International Trade Network Communities and Multilateral Sanctions

• In Event: Sanctions: Efficacy and Evasion

Brief Overview

When do economic sanctions become multilateral? We argue that states are more likely to cooperate in multilateral sanctions if they belong to the same trade network community and have a high betweenness centrality in international trade networks.

Authors

• Weining Ai, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

• Timothy Peterson, Arizona State University