Threat and imposition of economic sanctions 1945–2005 Updating the TIES dataset

• Published in: Conflict management and peace science Vol. 31; no. 5; pp. 541 - 558
• Main Authors: Morgan, T. Clifton, Bapat, Navin, Kobayashi, Yoshiharu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE 01.11.2014; SAGE Publications; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Coercion; Conflict management; Data analysis; Datasets; Economic costs; Economic relations; Economic Research; Economic sanctions; Errors; International sanctions; Military sanctions; Multilateralism; Political theory; Sanctions; Statistics; Threat; Threats; Time Periods; Trade embargoes; Trade sanctions; economic coercion; threats; Dataset; economic sanctions
• ISSN: 0738-8942; 1549-9219
• DOI: 10.1177/0738894213520379

Recent research on economic sanctions has produced significant advances in our theoretical and empirical understanding of the causes and effects of these phenomena. Our theoretical understanding, which has been guided by empirical findings, has reached the point where existing datasets are no longer adequate to test important hypotheses. This article presents a recently updated version of the Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions dataset. This version of the data extends the temporal domain, corrects errors, updates cases that were ongoing as of the last release, and includes a few additional variables. We describe the dataset, paying special attention to the key differences in the new version, and we present descriptive statistics for some of the key variables, highlighting differences across versions. Since the major change in the dataset was to more than double the time period covered, we also present some simple statistics showing trends in sanctions use over time.