Three Clingendael authors (Kaspar Pucek, Floor Stoelinga, Rem Korteweg) published The Complex Road to Undoing Sanctions Regimes, announcement, document.

Their short introduction to the document:

• While much attention is paid to how sanctions are imposed, far less focus is placed on how and when they should be lifted
• This paper maps out key reasons for sanctions relief and major obstacles to effective sanctions relief – across the political, legal, and economic dimensions
• Policymakers face multiple dilemmas, balancing trade-offs between clarity and flexibility, coalition size and manageability, timing and leverage, and reversibility and credibility
• When starting sanctions, policymakers would do well to consider how they would like to end them in the future