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Treasury’s Reversal on Sanctions Authority Is a Victory for Free Speech

OFAC’s reversal is a victory for free speech that ensures Americans can continue to engage with people and ideas from around the world.
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Magnitsky-Style Sanctions Are a Precision Measure for Iran’s Crisis of Impunity

Magnitsky-style sanctions provide a principled and practical framework for accountability.
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Will Renewed `Maximum Pressure’ Sanctions Yield Maximum Results? Not Likely.

Trump may find that the global economic dynamics that might have supported such a strategy the last time aren't the same today.
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Do Sanctions Work? It Depends. Burma and the West Bank Might Be Models.

The question shifts the focus from the far more critical issues of whether policy goals are clear and realistic and if sanctions can help.
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Sanctioning Human Trafficking Under the Global Magnitsky Program

This latest set of sanctions is a promising development, particularly as the State Department signaled its intent to prioritize using the Global Magnitsky program to address forced…

Journalist in Exile Laments Kyrgyzstan Crackdown, Now Extending to His 12-Year-Old Son

Bolot Temirov on the personal cost of the country's repression of media and civil society, as democracy gives way to authoritarianism.
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Lifting Russia Sanctions – What Can a President Do Unilaterally?

Congress has imposed significant constraints on the president's ability to unilaterally lift sanctions imposed on Russia for its aggression in Ukraine in increasingly specific…
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The Just Security Podcast: Assessing the Origins, Dynamics, and Future of Conflict in Sudan

The conflict has resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries, with estimates of 15,000 killed and more than 20,000 injured.
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Shattering Illusions: How Cyber Threat Intelligence Augments Legal Action against Russia’s Influence Operations

Recent U.S. Department of Justice actions against Russia's covert influence operations underscores the efficacy of legal countermeasures founded on actionable cyber threat intelligence.…
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A Perilous Senate Hearing on Bill to Sanction the International Criminal Court

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will soon consider an act that would impose sanctions on people and organizations to condemn the ICC.
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To Challenge State Capture, the US Needs a Strategy of State Retrieval

The democratic world must side with pro-democracy, peace, and anti-corruption movements in Africa and act against corrupt networks.
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Don’t Sanction the ICC for Doing its Job

Writes an American-Israeli citizen whose family was decimated in the Holocaust: "It is my family history and three decades spent advocating for human rights and the rule of…
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