Learn how economic sanctions impact global policy with examples like travel bans, export restrictions, and embargoes.

As 2025 comes to an end, one theme defines the global compliance landscape: volatility. Over the past twelve months, sanctions and export control regimes have shifted quickly as the second Trump ...

Ten years after wide-ranging UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme were lifted under a landmark deal with world powers, the economic measures are likely to be reimposed Saturday evening. The ...

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Already suffering a 40 percent inflation rate and critical shortages of power and water, many in Iran expect conditions to get worse. By Farnaz Fassihi Farnaz Fassihi has lived and worked in Iran, has ...

The U.S. is waging a silent war on humanity in the pursuit of Washington, D.C.'s geopolitical priorities. Economic sanctions, largely imposed by the U.S. government, punish and coerce nations by ...

New Delhi: As protests continue to spread across Iranian cities, US President Donald Trump has stepped into the moment with warnings of possible military action. He insists that his intent is to help ...

The Court held that IEEPA does not grant the president blanket authority to impose broad-based global tariffs under a ...

Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor receives funding from the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA). Kwaku also consults occasionally for the African Development Bank and the African ...

Both the Biden and the Trump administrations have been expanding U.S. export controls (particularly regarding China) and promulgating new and comprehensive economic sanctions. To reflect the ...

Britain, France and Germany have threatened to trigger a "snapback mechanism" to reintroduce UN sanctions over Tehran's atomic programme that were lifted under a now moribund 2015 Iran nuclear deal.