My CV (last updated: 12 November 2025) can be downloaded here.
Sample Publications
Books
Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis Ward (2024). Trading with Pariahs: Trade Networks and the Failure of Economic Sanctions. Lexington Books. [Use coupon code LXFANDF30 to get 30% off.]
Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Keith A. Preble & Charmaine N. Willis (2024). “Trading with Pariahs: North Korean Sanctions and the Challenge of Weaponized Interdependence.” Global Studies Quarterly 4(2): 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksae031
Beata Stępień, Bryan R. Early, Julia Grauvogel, Keith A. Preble, and Szymon Truskolaski. 2024. “The impact of external pressure on companies’ responses to sanctions – an international comparative study.” European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research (Special issue on economic sanctions). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-024-09576-y
Keith A. Preble and Bryan R. Early. 2023. “Enforcing Economic Sanctions by Tarnishing Corporate Reputations.” Business and Politics 26(1): 102-123. https://doi.org/
10.1017/bap.2023.22
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Keith A. Preble. 2023. “ ‘Just Right’: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes.” Foreign Policy Analysis 19(4): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orad020
Bryan R. Early. and Keith A. Preble. March 2020. “Enforcing US Economic Sanctions: Why Whale Hunting Works.” The Washington Quarterly 43(1): 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2020.1736881
Bryan R. Early and Keith A. Preble. 2020. “Going Fishing Versus Hunting Whales: Explaining Variation in the United States’ Enforcement of Economic Sanctions.” Security Studies 29(2): 231-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2020.1722850
Public Scholarship
Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis. 2025 “Sanctioning ghosts: Why US plans to hit Russia with fresh economic penalties will have little effect.” The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/sanctioning-ghosts-why-us-plans-to-hit-russia-with-fresh-economic-penalties-will-
have-little-effect-261208
Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis. 2024. “How Russia has managed to shake off the impact of sanctions – with a little help from its friends.” The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-russia-has-managed-to-shake-off-the-impact-of-sanctions-with-a-little-help-from-its-friends-223632
Charmaine N. Willis and Keith A. Preble. 2024. “3 years on from the coup, economic sanctions look unlikely to push Myanmar back to democracy.” The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/3-years-on-from-coup-economic-sanctions-look-unlikely-to-push-myanmar-back-to-democracy-221297
Policy Scholarship
Keith A. Preble, Crystal D. Pryor, and Luke McFadden. 2025. “SWOT Analysis of Japan: Mapping Japan’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for dual-use research, trade and industrial cooperation between the EU and Japan.” Belgium/Tokyo: EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation. https://www.eu-japan.eu/library
Kolja Brockmann and Keith A. Preble. September 2021. “Mitigating Humanitarian Impact in a Complex Sanctions Environment: The European Union and the Sanctions Regimes against Iran.” Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). https://www.sipri.org/publications/2021/policy-reports/mitigating-humanitarian-impact-complex-sanctions-environment-european-union-and-sanctions-regimes
Pedagogy Scholarship
Charmaine N. Willis and Keith A. Preble. 2025. “Learning at any age: Teaching Political Science to Older Adult Learners.” Journal of Political Science Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2025.2540402