Better or Worse? The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Human Rights

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Coercive or Corrosive: The Negative Impact of Economic Sanctions on Democracy (2010, background): “Furthermore, other studies demonstrate that economic coercion worsens human rights conditions (ie, the level of government respect for physical integrity rights) in those countries facing economic coercion as a result of failing to harm the political and military power of targeted elites, while soci”
The Impact of UN and US Economic Sanctions on GDP Growth (2015, neutral): “For example, Peksen (2009) reports that economic sanctions worsen the targeted government’s respect for human rights; Peksen and Drury (2010) find that economic sanctions have a detrimental impact on the level of democracy.”
When Do Imposed Economic Sanctions Work? A Critical Review of the Sanctions Effectiveness Literature (2019, background): “If anything, the use of sanctions to cope with highly salient issues such as regime change might not only fail but also become counterproductive by further deteriorating political freedoms in the target (Wood 2008; Peksen 2009; Peksen and Cooper Drury 2010; Adam and Tsarsitalidou 2019).”
Mind the Gap: State Capacity and the Implementation of Human Rights Treaties (2015, background): “Peksen 2009.”