Selected Publications

Last updated: 7 September 2024

For a more detailed list of scholarly activity, please consult my CV.

Data sets and replication materials can be found on their own page.

Books:

Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis Ward. 2024. Trading with Pariahs: Trade Networks and the Failure of Economic Sanctions. Lexington Books.

Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed):

Open Access. Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis. “Trading with Pariahs: North Korean Sanctions and the Challenge of Weaponized Interdependence.” Global Studies Quarterly 4(2).

Open Access — Special Issue on Economic Sanctions: Beata Stępień, Bryan R. Early, Julia Grauvogel, Keith A. Preble & Szymon Truskolaski. 2024. “The Impact of External Pressure on Companies’ Responses to Sanctions – an International Comparative Study.European Journal on Criminal Policy & Research 30: 1-26.

Open Access: Keith A. Preble and Bryan R. Early. 2023. “Enforcing Economic Sanctions by Tarnishing Corporate Reputations.” Business and Politics 26(1): 102-23.

Preble, Keith A. 2023. ““Just Right”: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s CausesForeign Policy Analysis 19(4).

Early, Bryan R. and Keith A. Preble. 2020. “Going Fishing Versus Hunting Whales: Explaining Variation in the United States’ Enforcement of Economic Sanctions.” Security Studies 29(2): 231-267.

Book Chapters:

Keith A. Preble. 2023. “Competition, Harmonization, and Security Dilemmas: Europe’s Contribution to the Arms Race in the Middle East.” Arms Race in the Middle East: Contemporary Security Dynamics. Mohammad Eslami and Alena Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira, eds. Springer Verlag. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031324314

Early, Bryan R. and Keith A. Preble. 2021. “Chapter 23: Grand Strategy and the Tools of Economic Statecraft.” Oxford Handbook of Grand StrategyEds. Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Public Scholarship:

Preble, Keith A. and Bryan R. Early. 2022. “Eliminating sanctions on the Taliban won’t solve Afghanistan’s deepening humanitarian crisis.War on the Rocks (26 January).

Preble, Keith A. 2021. “Sanctions reform should start with the Treasury Office Enforcing them.” War on the Rocks (9 November).

Brockmann, Kolja and Keith A. Preble. 2021. “Mitigating Humanitarian Impact in a Complex Sanctions Environment: The European Union and the Sanctions Regimes against Iran.” Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Early, Bryan R., and Keith A. Preble. 2021. “The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Sanctions Enforcement.War on the Rocks (21 February).

Early, Bryan R., and Keith A. Preble. 2020. “Enforcing US Economic Sanctions: Why Whale Hunting Works.The Washington Quarterly 43(1): 159-175.

Early, Bryan R. and Keith A. Preble. 2019. “Trends in U.S. Sanctions Enforcement During the Trump Administration.” Compliance & Enforcement,  NYU Law’s Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (30 January).

Early, Bryan R. and Keith Preble. 2017. “America needs Europe’s help with sanctions. It may not get it.” Monkey Cage/Washington Post (24 August).

Master’s Theses:

Preble, Keith A. 2017. “Abandoning policies of hostility and isolation: a punctuated equilibrium model of foreign policy change in U.S. foreign relations.” Master’s Thesis. Northwestern University.

Preble, Keith A. 2014. “Italy and the Suez Canal Crisis (1955-1956): The Foundations of a Multilateralist Foreign Policy.” Master’s Thesis. St. John’s University.