Lohmann Gives Talk on Transatlantic Economic Sanctions
The Project on the Political Economy of Security, a research initiative at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, hosted a June 6, 2018 talk with Sascha Lohmann, a Fritz Thyssen Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
Lohmann’s talk was entitled “Unilateral Economic Sanctions in Transatlantic Relations,” and covered the history of trans- Atlantic relations between Washington and its European allies — specifically the changing patterns of cooperation and conflict when it comes to the use of international sanctions.
Given the dearth of research on the causes and consequences of previous conflicts about the use of unilateral economic sanctions against state and non-state actors on both sides of the Atlantic, and taking into account the unfolding strategic divergence with respect to Iran and Russia, Lohmann focusesed on how the trans-Atlantic conflict about the extraterritorial application of unilateral U.S. sanctions were contained in the past and what lessons may be derived for future cooperation.
The Project on the Political Economy of Security was founded in 2014 to advance academic and policy-relevant knowledge regarding the intersection of economics and security. The domain of political economy of security encompasses those studies that link political economy and security studies. The project is co-directed by Kaija Schilde, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School, and Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University.