Lee Jones is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London and Research Associate at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University. His research focuses on state-society relations, security and governance in developing countries, particularly Southeast Asia. Lee is author of ASEAN, Sovereignty and Intervention in Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and, with Shahar Hameiri, Governing Borderless Threats: Non-Traditional Security and the Politics of State Transformation (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He has frequently advised governments and non-governmental organisations in Europe and Asia and appears regularly in national and international media. Lee blogs at TheDisorderofThings.com and tweets @DrLeeJones.

"[B]oth timely and timeless. It is an extremely timely wake-up call reminding any remaining intervention optimists of the moral and practical responsibility that follows from using sanctions without a qualified idea of how they will work on the ground. Highlighting the importance of local conditions is also a timeless message to an IR audience that far too often disregards qualitative difference in the search for quantifiable measurements... Buy the book, or ask your library to do so. You will have the pleasure to read an unusually elegant and thought-provoking piece of solid scholarly work." -Elin Helquist, Freie Universität, Berlin/ Stockholm University, The Disorder of Things

"The volume undoubtedly makes a key contribution to the field - indeed, one that was sorely needed: an evaluation of how sanctions interact with the economic and political dynamics in the target society, and more specifically, how they affect domestic power relations... an excellent contribution to the literature... it closes a long identified, overdue gap while putting in place a highly useful analytical framework... [that] can be readily employed by policy-makers interested in assessing the situation in the target society and crafting a sanctions strategy." -Clara Portela, Singapore Management University, The Disorder of Things

"Thanks to this work, I understand the world in ways that I did not before... It has also helped me to develop a research agenda... From pro-Palestinian activism to the politics of vaccine refusal, this book has something for everyone... Let Lee Jones shatter your illusions one perfectly crafted sentence at a time." -Katie Attwell, Murdoch University, The Disorder of Things