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

Economic sanctions are defined as the withdrawal of customary trade and financial relations for foreign- and security-policy purposes. Sanctions may be comprehensive, prohibiting commercial ...

[author: Alex Dieter, Law Clerk] To more effectively counter transnational corruption and economic sanctions evasion, recent changes to the U.S. anti-money laundering (“AML”) whistleblower ...

Earlier in 2024, the U.S. broadened its definition of Russia’s military industry, ... You may also like to watch how Russia use dark fleets to invade economic sanctions.

In his 2022 State of the Union address, delivered less than a week after the invasion of Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden touted t he “powerful economic sanctions” that the West had imposed on Russia ...

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 ...

So sanctions imposed on a country to damage its economy often tend to do economic harm to its neighbours. But not always. In some of the cases we looked at, sanctions actually have a positive ...

In “The Collapse of Venezuela,” my forthcoming book, I show that U.S. economic sanctions significantly contributed to the country’s economic implosion, accounting for more than 52 percent of ...

European Union foreign ministers agreed on Tuesday to lift the remaining economic sanctions on Syria, hoping to help the nation recover as it tries to find stable footing after years of war and ...