Broadcast Appearance - The Brookings Institution

The U.S. Needs Updated Sanctions Programs for an Era of Great Power Competition

| Oct. 14, 2019

Following the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001, the United States developed a powerful set of sanctions aimed at restricting the financing of terrorist activities. While those tools were initially targeted at organizations like al-Qaida and later ISIS, they have also been applied to rogue states like Iran and North Korea.

In this episode of Dollar & Sense, David Dollar is joined by Michael Greenwald, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center who helped design sanctions programs at the U.S. Treasury, to discuss the effectiveness of these tools and why they need to be updated for an era of great power competition.

For more information on this publication: Belfer Communications Office
For Academic Citation: “The U.S. Needs Updated Sanctions Programs for an Era of Great Power Competition.” Broadcast Appearance, October 14, 2019, posted by “The Brookings Institution”.

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