In geoeconomics, economic sanctions are strategically employed as tools of statecraft to achieve foreign policy objectives by exerting economic pressure on a target country or entity. Economic sanctions involve restricting or prohibiting certain economic activities with the target, aiming to compel a change in behavior. Sanctions can be deployed in several strategic ways. First, they can be used to deter specific actions, such as nuclear proliferation, human rights abuses, or support for terrorism. By imposing economic costs on these activities, the sanctioning state hopes to dissuade the target from engaging in them. For instance, sanctions may be imposed on a country developing nuclear weapons to halt its program. Second, sanctions can be used to coerce a change in policy. This involves using economic pressure to force a target state to alter its behavior or comp....
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