| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4761993 | The Social Science Journal | 2017 | 4 Pages |
â¢We analyze whether economic sanctions can reduce the ethnic violence of target states.â¢The imposition of economic sanctions exacerbates the ethnic violence within the target states.â¢We also find a robust U-shaped relationship between income and ethnic violence.
Economic sanctions have become a popular tool of statecraft in international politics. This paper makes an attempt to investigate the effect of economic sanctions on ethnic violence by using a sample of 46 target states over the period 1984-2008. Our results indicate that the imposition of economic sanctions has a deleterious influence on ethnic violence. Moreover, an interesting by-product finding of this paper is that we find a U-shaped relationship between income and ethnic violence, which shed new light on the income-ethnic violence nexus.
