Caileigh Glenn | Countermeasures: Targeted Financial Sanctions and Government Hostility

The Moynihan Institutes Study of Global Politics seminar series presents Caileigh Glenn from Middlebury College.

The United States often imposes targeted financial sanctions as a first-resort measure of foreign policy. Governments whose domestic firms are sanctioned can credibly refrain from issuing a response due to the targeted nature of the sanction. Yet governments sometimes respond with public hostility, imposing countermeasures and resisting the sanctions. Under what conditions do governments retaliate in response to the imposition of targeted financial sanctions on subnational entities?

In this talk, Caileigh Glenn presents research from her current book project on the conditions that prompt government hostility in response to U.S. targeted financial sanctions. Using a new dataset on targeted financial sanctions imposed by the U.S. between 2011 and 2019, she identifies sanction-specific and domestic-level conditions that make public government hostility likely.

Caileigh Glenn is assistant professor of political science at Middlebury College where she researches and teaches topics of international relations and foreign policy.