Lecturers
Thomas Biersteker, Graduate Institute (Geneva)
Dawid Walentek, Ghent University
Dates
Spring 2025 (31/03-01/04) Ghent University
Spring 2026 (dates TBC), Graduate Institute Geneva
Course details
This course is aimed at research staff, PhD candidates and (advanced) master students interested in (starting) research on economic sanctions. The course is open to all backgrounds (e.g., law, economics, political science); however, basic familiarity with quantitative or/and qualitative research methods are an advantage. The course consists of two meetings. The first meeting focuses on quantitative approaches to economic sanctions and second meeting is dedicated to qualitative methods. The course follows a “hands-on” approach and is centred around learning through replication of the existing scholarship (both quantitative and qualitative). In the quantitative component participants will become familiar with the one of main databases used in research on economic sanctions – and learn about the differences, similarities and limitations of in relation to other data set. Then participants will proceed to replicate a number of core findings in the literature and gain first-hand experience in working with sanctions data. In the qualitative component participants will learn how to identify core resources – both in respect to primary data and potential avenues for fieldwork. Then, again through replication of existing work, participants will gain experience in working with case-study research in addition to exploring integrated qualitative/quantitative data bases such as the TSC data efforts. Participants are expected to attend both days of the course.
