NYRB: "Anyone still convinced of the efficacy of economic sanctions, currently the US's foreign policy tool of choice (with penalties that affect one third of the countries in the world), would do well to consult Jeff Stein and Federica Cocco's reporting [in the Washington Post] and a new book, How Sanctions Work, by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez. Their writing on the perverse incentives created by economic sanctions shows obvious parallels between Iran's and Venezuela's reactions to economic isolation: a pervasive culture of blaming US imperialism for domestic problems and a resulting militarization of everyday life. In neither country, obviously have sanctions prompted regime change--not to mention in Cuba, where sixty years of sanctions have achieved nothing other than the immiseration of the Cuban people."