Do Threats or Impositions of Sanctions Destabilize Leaders? A Panel Data Study

Abstract: This paper examines whether economic sanctions, or threats of sanctions, destabilize regime leaders. As a measure for the events of sanctions the study uses a dataset known as the Threat or Imposition of Sanctions (TIES) including 888 individual cases. The applied econometric method is the conditional logistic regression with panel data on the period between 1971 and 2000. The findings suggest that neither sanctions nor threats of sanctions have any significant effect on the destabilization of leaders.