The Art of Sanctions
Richard Nephew, The Art of Sanctions: A View from the Field (Columbia University Press, 2017)
Summary: A practitioner's primer on one of the most widely tools of economic statecraft: sanctions. Part memoir, part how-to.
Key Quote: "[T[he two main attributes of a sanctions strategy [are] a sanctioning state applying pain against a target and the target state's resolve to persist in whatever it did to prompt sanctions." - p. 3
Bottom Line: Read this book if you want to understand the thought-process behind sanctions imposed by powerful nations.
