Articles by Thies Niemeier

July 17, 2026

Today's sanctions aren’t special. They’re just keeping up

Thies Niemeier
Is the global economy being weaponised at an unprecedented scale? Analysing decades of global trade and globalisation data, Thies Niemeier argues no. Sanctions have certainly grown more frequent and complex, but only to keep pace with a massive explosion in global integration
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Thies Niemeier
Researcher, Research Department International Institutions, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt

Thies studies economic sanctions, military alliances, and the geopolitical order through the econometric analysis of (big) data.

As part of the Targeting project at the GIGA Institute, he is co-creating a dataset on targeted sanctions against individuals and entities.

At PRIF, he is working on indicators of global polarisation.

His work has been published in Research & Politics.

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