The U.S. government has announced sanctions against Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel and other officials for human rights ...

Geopolitical risks buffeted oil prices late in the trading week. West Texas Intermediate fell Thursday on renewed concerns about U.S. tariffs and their economic impact and climbed Friday on possible ...

The State Department confirmed sanctions were imposed on UN official Francesca Albanese over efforts targeting U.S. and ...

The UN signed the agreement with Russia on July 22, 2022, with the aim of facilitating exports of Russian food and ...

The US sanctions UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her “campaign of political and economic warfare against the US ...

Bipartisan support is growing in the Senate for new sanctions on Russia, bolstered by President Trump's tentative backing, to ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for calling for international ...

Economic sanctions are defined as the withdrawal of customary trade and financial relations for foreign- and security-policy purposes. Sanctions may be comprehensive, prohibiting commercial ...

In an interview published over the weekend, Viktor Tatarintsev, Russia’s Ambassador to Sweden, was asked about the threat of American and European economic sanctions should Vladimir Putin order ...

In his new book, “The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War,” historian Nicholas Mulder traces the origins of modern sanctions back to the period between the two world ...

How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare, by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez, Stanford University Press, 212 pages, $24. If there's one part of ...

Sanctions can be a tool of peace. But they’re often a weapon, too. The global economy is a baffling battlefield. These three new books are here to help us understand it.