Banning the Worst Excesses of Economic Coercion: The Case for an International Convention on the Regulation and Prohibition of Coercive Economic Measures Affecting Civilians
Report — August 2026
“Banning the Worst Excesses of Economic Coercion: The Case for an International Convention on the Regulation and Prohibition of Coercive Economic Measures Affecting Civilians,” 17 August 2026, by Alistair Millar and Nathanael Tilahun.
Adapted from a shorter article published in February 2026 in The Sanctions Age, authors Alistair Millar and Nathanael Tilahun argue that the evolution of sanctions into instruments of systemic economic isolation and punishment demands a normative consolidation that arrests and reverses this trend.