Thread by @reziemba

Next up more sanctions papers #isa2023 Dursun Peksen on how sanctions impact elections. Finds that sanctions have more effect if shortly before elections vs long-standing and where election is in contest. Logical results. Implication: may be a window for concessions

But of course many sanctions targets do not have competitive elections. But overall, part of useful attempt to track more closely the near-term political dynamics and builds on his prior work on political/econ consolidation

Next @AndreaCharron @DrClaraPortela interrogating the many sanctions databases that have popped up. Some sanctions databases struggle to code how comprehensive measures are (targeted - a few people or major sectoral measures). They find new databases not much of an improvement

Global sanctions database contains more economic data to help run data analysis, but lacks some information on diplomatic and other measures. Useful work to better understand benefits and limitations of different databases.