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Power Problems • October 23, 2018 

# Scattershot Sanctions: The Trump Administration and the World 

Elizabeth Rosenberg, a sanctions expert at the Center for a New American Security joins Trevor and Emma to discuss the Trump administration’s eclectic approach to sanctions policy, and the impact of looming Iran sanctions.

- [Elizabeth Rosenberg bio](< https://www.cnas.org/people/elizabeth-rosenberg>)
- Elizabeth Rosenberg, [The EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/europe/2018-10-10/eu-cant-avoid-us-sanctions-iran), *Foreign Affairs*, October 10, 2018
- Jacob J. Lew and Richard Nephew, [The Use and Misuse of Economic Statecraft](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2018-10-15/use-and-misuse-economic-statecraft), *Foreign Affairs*, October 15, 2018
- Emma Ashford, [Not-So-Smart Sanctions](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/russian-federation/2015-12-14/not-so-smart-sanctions), *Foreign Affairs*, January/​February 2016
- *Cato Unbound*, [Do Economic Sanctions Work?](https://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/november-2014/do-economic-sanctions-work), November 2014

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##### [A. Trevor Thrall](/people/trevor-thrall)

Former Senior Fellow, Defense and Foreign Policy Department, Cato Institute

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##### [Emma Ashford](/people/emma-ashford)

Senior Fellow, Stimson Center

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##### Elizabeth Rosenberg