Timothy Peterson
Arizona State University Campus Immersion, AZ·Social Science
Governments often use economic restrictions, such as sanctions and export controls, to pressure or contain other countries and actors. Sometimes these measures work.
- Fields
Social Science
- Topics
economic sanctions
export controls
economic statecraft
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2027
What they work on
- Code all government-mandated restrictions on international flows of goods, services, technology, finance, travel, media and diplomacy from 1992–2022 into the GRIER dataset, with each prohibited interaction as a unit.
- Construct comparable, time-varying indicators of the comprehensiveness and severity of each economic restriction for its target.
- Test what drives the composition and severity of sanctions and export controls against governments, individuals or other entities, using the GRIER dataset.
- Assess how the mix of restrictions affects target concession and the reshaping of economic and political networks, including redirection of trade to third parties.
More about the research
At worst they backfire, weakening the country that imposes them and empowering rival powers. This project asks how leaders choose which restrictions to impose and when those restrictions succeed or fail.
Why it matters
The dataset and analyses could help policymakers and scholars judge when sanctions and export controls achieve their goals and when they backfire. They could also show how targeted countries shift trade to new partners, informing decisions about coercing or containing adversaries.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Arizona State University Campus Immersion: 36 labs on PI Pages, $1.0B a year on research, 625 research doctorates a year.
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