Here's everything you need to know about the U.S.'s potential economic sanctions against Russia.

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, IEEPA, authorizes the President of the United States to impose economic sanctions against countries, groups, entities, or individuals.

To more effectively counter transnational corruption and economic sanctions evasion, recent changes to the U.S. anti-money laundering (“AML”) whistleblower regime expand and reinforce ...

For many policymakers, economic sanctions have become the tool of choice to respond to major geopolitical challenges such as terrorism and conflict.

In a dramatic shift in Middle Eastern geopolitics, US President Donald Trump has announced the lifting of economic sanctions on Syria following his unexpected meeting with the country’s new ...

After sanctions failed to deter an invasion, they took on a new objective: blunting Russia’s capacity to do more harm, both in Ukraine and beyond. Instead of trying to generate enough economic pain to ...

Russia’s reliance on China’s yuan has become a cornerstone of its economic activities since Western sanctions heavily impacted the country’s global financial access following its invasion of ...

During the Assad regimes, Western nations placed crippling economic sanctions on the country. Some have been lifted, but most are still in place, so how does a country shattered by civil war ...

Our recent research, examines the effects of economic sanctions on 177 countries which had neighbours under sanctions at some point between 1989 and 2015.

Unsurprisingly, calls have already emerged for a return to the maximum pressure approach of the first Trump term, which imposed harsh economic sanctions on Venezuela.

Sanctions have long been an important means through which governments pursue their political, economic and diplomatic goals. These measures can target nation states, organizations or individuals for a ...