Sanctions

The annual Day of the Endangered Lawyer focuses attention on an increasingly frequent tool of autocrats: targeting their opponents' lawyers.

Support for leaders who remain in power only via repression and cooptation is a recipe for instability, not strategic success.

It fueled Russia's war on Ukraine. Now it's time for democratic societies to address this challenge for the long haul, including at home.

A better approach would be for Congress to impose additional targeted sanctions on Russia, but not through the one-size-fits-all state sponsor of terrorism designation.

The United States cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear ambitions with bombs, and it will not go to war in the Middle East to impose regime change in Tehran.

The political and legal complications of using such proceeds to compensate Ukraine aren't trivial, but neither are they insurmountable.

Tactical, short-sighted measures are not sufficient to prevent further worsening of conditions. A new approach is needed to meet the moment.

An overview shows a hardline approach partially inherited from Trump merged with an emphasis on working with allies and partners. 

A singular focus by the US and partners on power-sharing and elections to end the war has instead bred famine and a violent kleptocracy.

Advocates call for targeted sanctions in connection with for egregious human rights violations in Uttar Pradesh.

States and other non-federal actors have significant power, much of which is still untapped, to support ongoing sanctions efforts.

"Extraordinary deployments of executive power, however appropriate they may seem, must be subject to close oversight. And if an informed Congress concludes that sanctions are working…