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Cooperative Control: How the US Introduced Private Governance in Economic Sanction Enforcement
Multinational corporations are key to effective economic sanctions, yet aligning them with sanction objectives remains challenging due to conflicting market and political incentives. Starting in 2016, the US government began to shift from a coerci...
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Outsourcing Oversight: State-directed Private Governance Improves Business Sanctions Compliance in Cross-border M&As
Governments increasingly encourage private companies to self-regulate and voluntarily avoid risky businesses to comply with economic sanctions. Does state-led private governance work, and if so, how? Drawing on elite interviews and industry analys...
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