Coercing, Constraining and Signalling

In his important contribution to the field of UN and EU targeted sanctions, Francesco Giumelli provides an excellent conceptual account of the challenges this strategic tool confronts in today’s world. He does so by providing both an excellent theoretical as well as methodological analysis, especially with regard to strategies of coercing, constraining and signalling. What more is that Dr. Giumelli also provides scientific recommendations for how to move the field forward. In short then, this book should be a required reading for anyone interested in the state of the art of sanctions. -- Mikael Eriksson, Swedish Defence Research Agency

This is a thoughtful study of economic sanctions as instruments of statecraft together with other forms of statecraft in pursuit of a variety of foreign policy goals. To his credit, the author neither dismisses nor ignores signaling as a foreign policy device. -- David A. Baldwin, Princeton University

In his important contribution to the field of UN and EU targeted sanctions, Francesco Giumelli provides an excellent conceptual account of the challenges this strategic tool confronts in today’s world. He does so by providing both an excellent theoretical as well as methodological analysis, especially with regard to strategies of coercing, constraining and signalling. What more is that Dr. Giumelli also provides scientific recommendations for how to move the field forward. In short then, this book should be a required reading for anyone interested in the state of the art of sanctions. -- Mikael Eriksson, Swedish Defence Research Agency

Francesco Giumelli’s analytical distinction between the different purposes of sanctions – to coerce, to constrain, to signal – introduces an innovative way to think about and to evaluate the effectiveness of sanctions. -- Thomas Biersteker, Institute of International and Development Studies Geneva

Francesco Giumelli is Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute and Senior Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies at Metropolitan University Prague. He obtained his PhD at the University of Florence with a thesis on UN and EU Targeted Sanctions, which was shortlisted for the Jean Blondel Prize in 2009. He is the author of several studies on sanctions and he collaborates with the UN Targeted Sanction Consortium. In 2008 he was awarded a scholarship from the Compagnia di San Paolo under the European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS) and he was a visiting fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame University.