I’m delighted to have launched three reports in recent months which focus on the use of targeted sanctions to counter organized crime

The first is titled “Convergence Zone: The Evolution of Targeted Sanctions Usage Against Transnational Organized Crime.” It looks at the evolution of sanctions regimes and policy targeting organized crime, in the US, UN, EU and UK systems. It further details the processes these jurisdictions use in sanctioning. It is available here.

For those looking for highlights of the report, an executive briefing of the above report has also been produced. It is available here.

Finally, I just published “Hard Targets: Identifying a framework of objectives for targeted sanctions on illicit economies.” This report develops a tailored framework for assessing the strategic goals of sanctions regimes and groups of linked designations focused on TOC, as well as of individual designation objectives. The development of this framework is meant to create a tool to both better analyze the impact of TOC-focused sanctions and to design better sanctioning approaches. The report can be found here.