"This work is truly novel. Bryan Early is the first scholar to address sanction busting in a rigorous, systematic fashion---by analyzing what motivates states to engage in sanction busting, what measures they use, what the consequences of that busting are, and, ultimately, what can be done to counteract them."---A. Cooper Drury, University of Missouri<BR><BR>"Bryan Early persuasively shows that third-party sanctions busting, both through profitable trade and political aid, decisively affects the probability of a successful outcome. He reports surprising findings on the role of alliances, ideology, and commerce in the sanctions-busting game. Early's book is essential for practitioners and scholars of economic diplomacy."---Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Peterson Institute for International Economics<BR><BR>"Understanding the reasons why firms `bust' sanctions is an important part of discerning why sanctions frequently fail. Backed up by solid empirical modeling and compelling case studies, the research presented in Busted Sanctions goes a long way toward helping us grasp both the causes and consequences of sanction busting."---David Lektzian, Texas Tech University<BR><BR>Economic sanctions have an uninspiring record of success, achieving their goals less than a third of the time. By quantitatively and qualitatively analyzing over sixty years of U.S. economic sanctions, Bryan Early reveals that the primary cause of this failure rate are third-party spoilers, or sanctions busters---often the United States' closest allies---who have undercut U.S. sanctioning efforts by providing their targets with extensive foreign aid or sanctions-busting trade