POLICY AND PLACE IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COERCION Cullen P. Moran American University Abstract This paper investigates factors that contribute to the effectiveness of international economic sanctions. A review of existing literature on economic sanctions reveals that scholars of economic statecraft have neglected two variables – the policy goals of the sender and the place where sanctions are implemented – in their analyses of sanctions success. This study uses multiple analysis of variance to establish that policy and place do account for a degree of variation in the success rate of sanctions. Causal mechanisms that reflect the role of the power- maximizing policymaker are then taken into account to explain the relationship between sanctions success and sender policy. Finally, this study proposes a regional approach to the study of economic statecraft that is based on threshold models for collective action.