Supporting research on international sanctions at Chatham House through data analysis

I assisted Dr Christopher Sabatini (Senior Research Fellow for Latin America, Chatham House) in his research on international sanctions through data analysis work: extracting information using computational methods from datasets on international sanctions.

This research has produced an expert comment and a research paper, in both of which I was acknowledged.

In the expert comment, ‘History suggests Trump’s snapped back sanctions won’t deliver change in Venezuela’^[1]:

Data analysis, with assistance from Harry Bartholomew, draws from Syropoulos, C. et al. (2023), ‘The global sanctions data base – Release 3, Review of International Economics; Felbermayr, G. et al. (2020), ‘The global sanctions data base’, European Economic Review; and Kirikakha, A. et al. (2021), ‘The Global Sanctions Data Base (GSDB): an update that includes the years of the Trump presidency’.

In the research paper, Understanding and Improving Sanctions Today: Why and How Many Sanctions Fail, and What to Do about It^[2]:

Harry Bartholomew conducted the data analysis on the unwieldy Excel database that we created. Thank you for making sense of it, Harry.