The Failure of the ‘Maximum Pressure’ Campaign : A Social Conflict Analysis of how U.S. Sanctions Transformed Coalitional Struggles in Venezuela 2017 – 2022
Despite economic sanctions generally failing to achieve their intended goals, the global use of sanctions has increased dramatically since the end of the Cold war. A recent example of a sanctions regime unsuccessful in realizing its ostensible goal is that of the U.S. ‘maximum pressure’ campaign against Venezuela between 2017 – 2022, which did not succeed in removing the incrementally authoritaria
