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Our insights into sanctions issues have been published by a range of major publications including Forbes, the South China Morning Post and Business Insider.

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Sanctions Guide – September 2025

In the Middle East, September’s sanctions activity was led by the UN’s reimposition of sanctions on Iran following the activation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”) snapback mechanism, following which the UK and…
Dom Dixey
October 9, 2025

Sanctions Guide – August 2020

Key sanctions developments in July include a number of US measures against China as tensions between them rise; Britain’s launch of an independent sanctions regime; the EU’s first use of…

Sanctions Guide – July 2020

Sanctions Guide – July 2020   Key sanctions developments in June include President Trump’s seeming U-turn over plans to sanctions Chinese officials implicated in human rights abuses; the US sanctioning...

Sanctions Guide – June 2020

Sanctions Guide – June 2020   Key developments this month include heightened US tensions with China over Xinjiang and Hong Kong, Washington’s sanctioning of Iran’s interior minister for alleged human…

Sanctions Guide – April 2020

Sanctions Guide – April 2020   Key developments this month as the US faces critical sanctions decisions over COVID-19 and North Korean non-compliance and America’s ‘maximum pressure’ strategy to bring…

Comment: Zimbabwe and the Sanctions Myth

It has the potential to become one of the more prosperous economies in Africa, given its educated workforce, mineral riches and some of the most fertile farmland on the continent….

Alaco

US Sanctions on Turkey

On 14th October 2019 President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order implementing sanctions against Turkey in response to the latter’s military offensive in Northern Syria.  The US’ Office of Foreign…