Keith A. Preble

Guest Researcher

Keith A. Preble

Keith A. Preble was a Guest Researcher with the SIPRI Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme. He is a PhD candidate at the University at Albany, SUNY in Albany, New York. His dissertation focuses on how sanctions and arms embargo busting and explores how development of the EU and EU Single Market as well as the type and nature of the trade being conducted between sender, target, and third-party states impacts the effectiveness of economic sanctions and arms embargoes.

He is also a graduate research associate for the Center for Policy Research’s Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the University at Albany, SUNY as well as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Political Science at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy where he teaches courses on US foreign policy, international organizations, European politics, and US politics and government.

Subject expertise

US economic sanctions, sanctions implementation, enforcement, and effectiveness; US foreign policy; UN sanctions; EU sanctions; US/UN/EU arms embargoes; international trade

Regional expertise

United States, European Union, Southeast Asia, North Korea

Languages

English, Italian

Education

PhD in political science, University at Albany, SUNY (in progress); MA in public policy and administration, Northwestern University; MA in government and politics, St. John’s University; BA in archaeology and classics, University of Melbourne

Citizenship

United States

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Mitigating Humanitarian Impact in a Complex Sanctions Environment: The European Union and the Sanctions Regimes against Iran (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2021)

External publications

Early, B. R. and Preble, K. A., The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Sanctions Enforcement, War on the Rocks (Feb 2021)
Early, B. R. and Preble, K. A., ‘Grand Strategy and the Tools of Economic Statecraft’, Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy, eds. Balzacq, T. and Krebs, R. R. , Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2021)
Early, B. R. and Preble, K. A., Enforcing US Economic Sanctions: Why Whale Hunting Works, The Washington Quarterly, 43(1): 159-172. (2010)
Early, B. R. and Preble, K. A., Going Fishing Versus Hunting Whales: Explaining Variation in the United States’ Enforcement of Economic Sanctions, Security Studies 29(2): 231-267 (2020)
Early, B. R. and Preble, K. A., America needs Europe’s help with sanctions. It may not get it., Monkey Cage (via Washington Post), (Aug 2017)