A. Drury 
Economic Sanctions and Presidential Decisions 
Models of Political Rationality

Economic sanctions: panacea, symbolic but ineffectual, or useless and counterproductive? While these questions have framed much the existing debate, Drury digs deeper to why foreign policy leaders, and especially the president, choose sanctions, of which type, whether to sustain them, and when to terminate them. Skilfully integrating domestic and international factors, and placing the analysis of sanctions directly into the mainstream of strategic studies and decision theory, this book breaks new ground with its innovative argument and thorough testing using a variety of databases.

Table of Content

Introduction The Conventional Wisdom International/Dyadic Reasons to Sanction Domestic Political Reasons to Sanction Presidential Rationality and the Decision to Sanction Analysis of the Decision to Initiate an Economic Sanction Analysis of the Decision to Modify an Economic Sanction Policy Assessment of a Target-Selection Bias Selecting the Severity of the Sanction Used Conclusions and Implications

About the author

A. COOPER DRURY is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri, USA.