Keith Preble

Biography

Keith A. Preble, Ph.D. is a visiting assistant professor of political science at Miami University (Ohio) and formerly a postdoctoral researcher with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the Center for Policy Research at the University at Albany, SUNY. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University at Albany, SUNY (2021). His research focuses on economic statecraft, sanctions evasion, sanctions circumvention techniques and the role of economic power in foreign policy.

Education

• Ph.D., University at Albany, State University of New York
• M.A., Northwestern University
• M.A., St. John's University
• B.A., University of Melbourne

Research Interests

International relations, comparative politics, economic statecraft, economic sanctions, strategic trade controls, proliferation financing, foreign policy, North Korea, Chinese politics.

Courses Taught

• POL271/POL271W: World Politics
• POL381W: Global Governance
• POL382/POL382W: International Law
• POL370G: Politics of Economic Statecraft
• POL370I: Rising China in World Politics
• POL471N/POL571N: Politics of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Publications

• Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis Ward (2024). Trading with Pariahs: Trade Networks and the Failure of Economic Sanctions. Lexington Books.
• Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis. 2024. “Trading with Pariahs: North Korean Sanctions and the Challenge of Weaponized Interdependence.” Global Studies Quarterly. https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/4/2/ksa...
• Keith A. Preble. 2024. “Why INSTEX and not something else? Understanding the development of INSTEX in response to US secondary sanctions.” Economic sanctions under international law: trade continuity with special purpose vehicles, P. Sean Morris, ed. Routledge.
• Keith A. Preble and Charmaine N. Willis. 2024. “How Russia has managed to shake off the impact of sanctions – with a little help from its friends.” The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-russia-has-mana...
• Willis, Charmaine N. and Keith A. Preble. 2024. “3 years on from the coup, economic sanctions look unlikely to push Myanmar back to democracy.” The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/3-years-on-from-cou...
• Beata Stępień, Bryan R. Early, Julia Grauvogel, Keith A. Preble, and Szymon Truskolaski. 2024. “The impact of external pressure on companies’ responses to sanctions – an international comparative study.” European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research (Special Issue on economic sanctions). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-024-09576-y
• Keith A. Preble. 2024. “‘A Farewell to Arms’: Arms Embargo Busting and the Challenges of Arms Export Harmonization in the European Union.” International (unilateral) sanctions in an interdisciplinary perspective: legal, economic-financial, and political implications. Antonio Bultrini, Mirko Sossai, Francesco Giumelli, and Clara Portela, eds. Routledge/Giappichelli. https://www.routledge.com/International-Sanctio... 
• Keith A. Preble and Bryan R. Early. 2023. “Enforcing Economic Sanctions by Tarnishing Corporate Reputations.” Business and Politics 26(1): 102-123. https://doi.org/10.1017/bap.2023.22
• Bryan R. Early. and Keith A. Preble. 2024. “For Fear or Positive PR? Exploring Firms’ Self-Sanctioning Responses to Ukraine’s Invasion.” In The Effect of Economic Sanctions within the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. Morad Bali, ed. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
• Keith A. Preble. 2023. “Competition, Harmonization, and Security Dilemmas: Europe’s Contribution to the Arms Race in the Middle East.” Arms Race in the Middle East: Contemporary Security Dynamics. Mohammad Eslami and Alena Vysotskaya Guedes Vieira, eds. Springer Verlag. https://link.springer.com/book/9783031324314
• Keith A. Preble. 2023. “‘Just Right’: The Goldilocks Theory of Sanctions Busting’s Causes.” Foreign Policy Analysis 19(4): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orad020
• Bryan R. Early and Keith Preble. 2021. “Grand Strategy and the Tools of Economic Statecraft.” Oxford Handbook of Grand Strategy. Thierry Balzacq and Ronald R. Krebs, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840299.013.24
• Bryan R. Early and Keith A. Preble. 2020. “Going Fishing Versus Hunting Whales: Explaining Variation in the United States’ Enforcement of Economic Sanctions.” Security Studies 29(2): 231-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/09636412.2020.1722850