I have to ask the candid question : is there any data to back the efficiency of financial sanctions ? Don't get me wrong, I find them preferable to military act

I have to ask the candid question : is there any data to back the efficiency of financial sanctions ? Don't get me wrong, I find them preferable to military actions "in general" (although specific cases will differ, and military actions has not been extraordinary effective either...) I'm probably negativly biased by not having seen many dictators fall in the recent years, and a bunch of autocratic government flourish, while the US and EU are enacting sanctions all the time. That being said, maybe the effect can't be spectacular, and it's one of those "sit by the river..." things where you have to surrender to time and biology.