Sanctions skeptics face a new challenge to their claims that sanctions do not work. This Handbook answers to their skepticism. It is authored by leading sanctions practitioners as a pragmatic implementation guide for government officials and corporate compliance officers who wish to enhance the effectiveness of all sanctions measures, specifically arms embargoes, asset freezes, or travel bans. As demonstrated by the current Iran situation correctly applied sanctions can help to resolve crises caused by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Sanctions also respond effectively - without having to resort to the use of military force - to other threats, for example those by Al Qaida and ISIS, perpetrators of atrocities, or inter-state violence. The multi-disciplinary skills needed to effectively implement this important policy tool cannot be acquired in theoretical debates. It must be learned in the hard and daily grind of tracking, investigating, and monitoring sanctions violations.

This handbook delivers all these requirements. It includes ten typologies of sanctions violations, fourteen tables, twenty two extensive diagrams and figures, and five annexes. They include all the names of those individuals and entities who will be delisted from the Iran sanctions according to the schedule of the JCPOA, the disarmament agreement recently concluded between the P5 +1 and Iran.

This book, written with Shawna Meister, includes a foreword by Professor David Cortright. The entire handbook is peer-reviewed by renowned sanctions experts Lipika Majumdar Roy Choudhury, George A. Lopez, William Newcomb, and Svetlana Utkina. A special chapter contributed by Law Professor Nikos Passas discusses the inter-relationship between sanctions and UN Conventions against Transnational Organized Crime, Corruption, and for Suppression of Financing of Terrorism.