Global Sanctions Dashboard: January
Global
Sanctions Dashboard, the Atlantic Council aims to inform economic statecraft policies by analyzing sanctions globally and identifying trends across lists in partnership with Castellum.AI. Through the examination of potential areas of cooperation, as well as possible pain points, the insights gleaned in this report can help guide and inform multilateral cooperation in the new age of geoeconomics. This first edition focuses on the first month of 2021.
Sanctions have long been a staple of American foreign policy. Under former President Donald Trump, sanctions ended up playing a considerable role in the administration’s ‘America First’ agenda albeit with varied results. After four years, President Trump left office with nearly double the amount of designations than his predecessor did in his eight year tenure, though about 700 of Trump’s designations consisted of reimposing JCPOA sanctions lifted by Obama. Treasury Secretary Janet Y