Abstract

As the two major economies in the world, the US and EU coordination on economic sanctions has important implications on the target country and even on the third party. From the data of sanctions between 1993 and 2018, the general level of US-EU coordination on economic sanctions has been on the rise, which was also fluctuating to the US Presidential terms. With the emergence of the targeted sanction concept, EU rising willingness and capability on sanctions, and US lobbying and pressure, the US and EU have stepped up coordination on economic sanctions. But the coordination is also constrained by the two sides’ diverging understandings about sanctions, differences in political systems and conflict of material interests. With the impact of the US foreign policy adjustments, Brexit and the Iran nuclear issue, the future of US-EU coordination on economic sanctions still hangs in the balance.

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