Publications by PISCES Experts
2025
Keith A. Preble, Crystal D. Pryor, and Luke McFadden. 2025. “SWOT Analysis of Japan — Mapping Japan’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for Dual-use research, trade and industrial cooperation between the EU and Japan.” Minerva Policy Reports, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation.
2024
Bapat, Navtin, Bryan Early, Julia Grauvogel, and Katja Kleinberg. 2024. "The Currency Constraint: Explaining the Selective Enforcement of U.S. Financial Sanctions," Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 20, no. 4.
Early, Bryan R. and Timothy Peterson. 2024. “The Enforcement of U.S. Economic Sanctions and Global De-Risking Behavior.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 68, no. 10.
Kassenova, Togzhan. 2024. “Kazakhstan’s nuclear power conundrum.” The Diplomat, 1 October.
Pryor, Crystal, and Keith Preble. "Tracking the Implementation of Strategic Trade Controls (STCs)." SSRN, October 1, 2024. https://ssrn.com/abstract=5154065.
Preble, Keith A., and Charmaine N. Willis Ward. Trading with Pariahs: Trade Networks and the Failure of Economic Sanctions. Lexington Books, 2024.
Preble, Keith A., and Charmaine N. Willis. "Trading with Pariahs: North Korean Sanctions and the Challenge of Weaponized Interdependence." Global Studies Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 2, 2024, pp. 1-16.
Preble, Keith A., and Bryan R. Early. "Enforcing Economic Sanctions by Tarnishing Corporate Reputations." Business and Politics, vol. 26, no. 1, 2024, pp. 102-123.
Kassenova, Togzhan. "Kazakhstan’s Irreversible Disarmament." Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, vol. 7, no. 1, 2024, pp. 60-70.
2023
Kassenova, Togzhan, and Bryan R. Early. "Countering the Challenges of Proliferation Financing." Center for Policy Research, University at Albany, State University of New York, July 2023.
Fahrenkopf, Nolan. "War in Ukraine Is Contributing to the Erosion of Global Consensus Over the Spread of Dangerous Weapons." The Conversation, 2023. https://theconversation.com/war-in-ukraine-is-contributing-to-the-erosion-of-global-consensus-over-the-spread-of-dangerous-weapons-211850
2022
Early, Bryan R., Nolan Fahrenkopf, Michael C. Horowitz, and James Igoe Walsh. "Climbing the Ladder: Explaining Vertical Proliferation of Cruise Missiles." Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 66, no. 6, 2022, pp. 955-982.
Kassenova, Togzhan. Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb. Stanford University Press, 2022.
Kassenova, Togzhan. "Kazakhstan’s Nuclear History: Lessons for the Future of Disarmament." Verifying Disarmament in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, UNIDIR, 2022, pp. 51-61.
Kassenova, Togzhan. "Project Sapphire: How to Keep 600 Kilograms of Kazakh Highly Enriched Uranium Safe." War on the Rocks, April 1, 2022. https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/project-sapphire-how-to-keep-600-kilograms-of-kazakh-highly-enriched-uranium-safe/
Kassenova, Togzhan. "How Kazakhstan Fought Back Against Soviet Nuclear Tests." Carnegie Photo Essay, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, February 14, 2022.
2021
Early, Bryan R. “Birds of a feather, do sanctioned states flock together?” Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 73, no. 3.
Early, Bryan R. “Making Sanctions Work: Promoting Compliance, Punishing Violations, and Discouraging Sanctions Busting” in Peter van Bergeijk, ed., Research Handbook on Economic Sanctions, 2021. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Nash, Jay P. Asia Pacific Strategic Trade Controls. WorldECR, 2021.
Fahrenkopf, Nolan. "Taliban, Islamic State Arm Themselves with Weapons US Left Behind." The Conversation, 2021. https://theconversation.com/taliban-islamic-state-arm-themselves-with-weapons-us-left-behind-167960
Fahrenkopf, Nolan. "The Security of Arms Transfers During the War on Terror." Academic Minute, 2021. https://academicminute.org/2021/12/nolan-fahrenkopf-university-at-albany-the-security-of-arms-transfers-during-the-war-on-terror/
Fahrenkopf, Nolan, Rachel Brush, and Jay P. Nash. "Indonesia." Asia Pacific Strategic Trade Controls, WorldECR, 2021.
Anggitta, Mutti. "Understanding Strategies of Anti-Nuclear Movement: A Study of ICAN." Jurnal Politica, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021. https://jurnal.dpr.go.id/index.php/politica/article/download/1924/945
Cathie, Ryan. "Bangladesh" and "Pakistan." Asia Pacific Strategic Trade Controls, WorldECR, 2021. https://www.worldecr.com/books/
2020
Early, Bryan R., and Keith A. Preble. “Going Fishing versus Hunting Whales: Explaining Changes in How the US Enforces Economic Sanctions.” Security Studies, vol. 29, no. 2, 2020, pp. 231-267.
Early, Bryan R. and Keith Preble. “Enforcing US Economic Sanctions: Why Whale Hunting Works.” The Washington Quarterly, 202, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 159-175.
Kassenova, Togzhan, Lucas Perez Florentino, and Matias Spektor. "Prospects for Nuclear Governance in Brazil." FGV, 2020.
Kassenova, Togzhan. "2020 U.N. North Korea Panel of Experts Report: Takeaways for Financial Institutions." ACAMS Today, web edition, May 18, 2020.
Pryor, Crystal D. "Japan." Asia-Pacific Strategic Trade Controls, WorldECR/D.C. Houghton Ltd., February 2020. https://www.riskcompliance.biz/books/asia-pacific-strategic-trade-controls/
2019
Fahrenkopf, Nolan. "Giving Saudi Arabia Guided Munitions Tech Could Have Huge Consequences." War on the Rocks, 2019. https://warontherocks.com/2019/07/giving-saudi-arabia-guided-munitions-tech-could-have-huge-consequences/
Kassenova, Togzhan. "Proliferation Financing: What Financial Institutions Should Know and What They Can Do." ACAMS Today, September-November 2019.
Kassenova, Togzhan. "2019 U.N. North Korea Panel of Experts Report: Takeaways for Financial Institutions." ACAMS Today, web edition, March 27, 2019.
Pryor, Crystal D. "US Controls on High-Tech Exports to China Will Backfire." Nikkei Asian Review, December 5, 2019. https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/US-controls-on-high-tech-exports-to-China-will-backfire
2016
Early, Bryan R. “Confronting the Implementation and Enforcement Challenges Involved in Imposing Economic Sanctions,” In Natalino Ronzitti’s, Ed., Coercive Diplomacy, Sanctions and International Law, 2016, Boston: Brill Nijhoff, pp. 43-69.
2015
Early, Bryan R. Busted Sanctions: Explaining Why Economic Sanctions Fail. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Early, Bryan R. and Robert Spice. “Economic sanctions, international institutions, and sanctions busters: when does institutionalized cooperation help sanctioning efforts?” Foreign Policy Analysis vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 339-360.
2011
Stinnett, Douglas, Bryan R. Early, Cale Horne, and Johannes Karreth. “Complying by Denying: Explaining Why States Develop Nonproliferation Export Controls,” International Studies Perspectives, 2011, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 308-326.