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Democratic Sanctions: Connecting the Democratic Peace and Economic Sanctions

Dan G. Cox

Department of Government, Social Work, and Sociology, Missouri Western State College, cox{at}missouriwestern.edu

A. Cooper Drury

Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia, drury{at}missouri.edu

The democratic peace literature has focused primarily on militarized conflict; however, aspects of the democratic peace may influence how states use economic sanctions. This article investigates how democracies sanction both each other and other non-democracies. Because economic sanctions are very different from military force, some aspects of the democratic peace, such as the more peaceful nature of democracies, do not apply to the decision to sanction. However, several democratic peace factors should influence the use of economic sanctions, such as institutional constraints, shared values, and quick resolutions often found between two democracies. Using updated economic sanction data from 1978 through 2000, the article employs rare-event logit analysis to show that the democratic peace does influence the use of economic coercion - democracies are less likely to sanction each other. It also shows that democracies employ sanctions more than other regime types, in part because democracies pursue human rights and democratization goals with economic sanctions. The results further reveal that unlike other countries, the United States is not hesitant to sanction its allies.

Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 43, No. 6, 709-722 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0022343306068104
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